'My Flesh is Food Indeed': Eckhart and Aquinas on the Body of Christ. Issue 2 (25th November 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Michael Demkovich, OP
• Is Part Of: Medieval mystical theology. Volume 22:Issue 2(2013)
• Page Start: 106
• Page End: 119
• Publication Date: 2013-11-25
• Subjects: Meister Eckhart -- Thomas Aquinas -- Eucharist -- Transubstantiation -- Heresy -- Corpus Christi; Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500 -- Periodicals; Mysticism -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500 -- Periodicals; Mysticism -- England -- History -- Periodicals; 248.2205
• DOI: 10.1179/2046572613Z.0000000008
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2046-5726

Abstract

Abstract : The papal bull, In agro dominico, article 10, condemns a key concept in Eckhart's 'Eucharistic Theology' as containing 'the error or stain of heresy'. On closer examination we see that the bull misrepresents Eckhart's position and diminishes the Eucharist. Eckhart clearly has grounded his position in Aquinas, but has also developed it in light of his own notion of deiformitas ( gottesgeburt ), our transformation into the Body of Christ.