E' difficile capire come sia possibile che il pane della Messa si trasformi nel Corpo di Cristo. Bisogna escludere che delle molecole di quel corpo tornino (come avverrà il giorno della resurrezione), si dice con Aristotele che l'azione è a livello di "essenza" ma molti cattolici non credono nell'esistenza delle essenze (è un concetto superfluo). Una soluzione c'è: il Figlio potrebbe tornare ad incarnarsi nel pane così come si è incarnato in un corpo umano a suo tempo. Due nature che si uniscono nel ricordo della prima incarnazione. Una presenza che non viene banalizzata dall'Onnipresenza di Dio... forse il problema è risolto.
Arcadi on Idealism and the Eucharist (blog.kennypearce.net): "To answer this question, Arcadi considers three theories: transubstantiation, consubstantiation, and impanation. Now, the doctrine of transubstantiation is standardly explicated in the jargon of Aristotelian metaphysics and this, one might suppose, makes it obviously inconsistent with idealism, a radically anti-Aristotelian metaphysical doctrine. (Indeed, this is precisely what I would have said prior to reading this article!) However, Arcadi argues that this is too quick, for transubstantiation can be formulated without this jargon. What the doctrine claims, at bottom, is that, when the elements are consecrated, the bread ceases to be present and the body of Christ begins to be present, although the sensible qualities of bread remain throughout, and the sensible qualities of the body of Christ are absent throughout. Consubstantiation is precisely the same, except that it holds that the bread continues to be present (201-2). Now these views, Arcadi argues, do turn out to be inconsistent with (Berkeleian) idealism. The reason is that a core principle of Berkeleian idealism is the refusal to distinguish the bread itself from its sensible qualities. Hence, for the Berkeleian, as long as the sensible qualities of bread are present, the bread is present, and as long as the sensible qualities of the body of Christ are absent, the body of Christ is absent (203-4).
According to the third view, impanation, Christ comes to bear to the bread a relation that is somehow similar or analogous to the hypostatic union of the two natures in Christ, or Christ's relation to his human body. Arcadi favors the latter approach, and argues that it is consistent with idealism: the bread (while remaining bread) comes to be the body of Christ in the sense that it comes to be related to Christ in the same way Christ's human body is related to him. As indicated at 213n26, consistency with the Chalcedonian Definition appears to require that the relevant relation, on this picture, be a relation to Christ's human soul. Arcadi takes the Berkeleian picture to hold that a given soul is embodied in a particular body just if it bears the right perceptual relation to the sensible qualities of that body (206-8). Clearly, there is no metaphysical difficulty in God's bringing it about that Christ's human soul bears this relation to the Eucharistic bread."
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