Eros, body and Eucharist

Abstract

Christianity is a matter of culture, not just belief. The formula «this is my body» structures the faith, but also thought. It is thus at the edge of today’s culture, and insofar as Christianity is also «operative» and  transformative” of culture, that we must think about the mystery of the body and the Eucharist in our time. Descending to the depths of man met by God, the hoc est corpus meum will thus find in the animality of man also assumed by God its inheritance, in the body its content, in eros its modality, and in dwelling or the act of abiding its finality. The mystery of the union of man and woman thus illuminates the mystery of the union of man to God, not in delusion of an impossible fusion, but first of all because love is an act of differentiation. «Love makes the body» rather than «the body makes love». Only a conception of love as «force» which seeks to incorporate itself will make it possible to conceive for today the conversion of eros into àgape.