Can Materialism Save the Body? Nancy, the Eucharist, and the Smuggled Sacred (Part 1)
From Of Dust and Divinity · 00:10:01
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Does postmodern materialism protect bodily dignity, or does radical immanence end up flattening the very flesh it seeks to elevate?In this episode, we examine Jean-Luc Nancy’s Corpus and his secular deconstruction of the Eucharist—specifically his literalization of hoc est enim corpus meum ("this is my body") and rejection of the logos spermatikos. By testing Nancy's framework against the historical martyrdom of St. Felicity in Carthage (203 AD), we trace where secular immanence fractures when confronted with biological suffering and pneumatic agency.Postmodern critiques often mistake orthodox Christian anthropology for a Gnostic rejection of matter. Drawing on the Hebrew doctrine of creatio ex nihilo and tov, Tertullian's claim that caro salutis est cardo ("the flesh is the hinge of salvation"), the Eucharistic realism of Irenaeus and Ignatius, and Emmanuel Falque’s concept of the "spread body," we argue that secular materialism merely smuggles in a sacred bodily worth that its own ontology cannot sustain.
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