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Banqueter's Guide to the All-Night Soup Kitchen of the Reign of God (Liturgical Press), my own humble offering at this banquet of books, explores the ties between the Eucharist and justice by asking what it means to call this sacrament bread, table, body, and sacrifice.
For a terracotta plaque from Messene depicting a snake drinking out of a
banqueter's phiale, see Themelis 1998, p.
(4.3.20-23) The forager, living off the land, emblematizes the risk that such an idyllic existence might upturn the whole social order and unseat the land ownership on which civilization depends, the same risk, in fact, that the debt-ridden
banqueter and feaster incurs.
On the left is a detail from a Greek drinking cup, showing a reclining
banqueter, painted in 520-510 BC.
It is permitted to discern that which against the wealthy
banqueter and those who do not feed upon Christ; it must be also considered what is good, next what are the degrees of beneficence.
Specializing in Catholic social teachings and Christians and violence, he has recently published: A
Banqueter's Guide to the All-Night Soup Kitchen of the Kingdom of God (2004); "Hospitality: How A Biblical Virtue Could Transform United States Immigration Policy," with Elizabeth McCormick, University of Detroit Mercy Law Review 84.5 (2006); and "Saving Citizen Ryan: Supporting a Just War or Just Supporting the Troops?" Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 29.1 (2009).
McCormick, A
Banqueter's Guide to the All-Night Soup of the Kingdom of God (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2004), especially chaps.
2008: Intolerance amongst deer species at feeding: roe deer are uneasy
banqueters. Behav.
(26) Noting that Greek writers often represented discussions of eros as taking place at banquets or convivia, Origen argues that such
banqueters actually feasted on "words" (verborum) rather than "food." Framing the Song as a "banquet of words" serves two crucially important purposes.
(2) No wonder Trimalchio assures the
banqueters that he tells them 'fact, not fable'.
Moral standing is hardly a qualification as Jesus made quite clear with the words, "bad and good alike." (Oh, how that word "alike" can gall the ones who think they're good!) The only difference between the
banqueters and those gnashing their teeth in the dark was the partygoers' wholehearted acceptance of the invitation.
Then, as Tamora and the other
banqueters are wolfing down slice after slice of the giant calzones entombing her sons, the first rows of the audience are invited to share the actors' feeding frenzy.
(57) The number of seated
banqueters could thus correspond to the number of miniature kylikes found in room 7.
A painting of a 'Renaissance Interior with
Banqueters' by Bartholomeus Van Bassen in around 1618-20 shows a 2-tiered buffet in a Dutch interior with two dishes (of silver or pewter) similar in size to the Temperantia basins (from the collection of Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art illustrated in Axel Ruger, Vermeer and Painting in Delft, National Gallery, London 2001, p.22).
