Torture and Eucharist Beginning Italian courage and compassion of the

courage and compassion of the human spirit

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Torture and Eucharist Beginning Italian courage and compassion of theIn this engrossing analysis, Cavanaugh contends that the Eucharist is the Church's response to the use of torture as a social discipline. The author develops a theology of the political which presents torture as one instance of a larger confrontation of powers over bodies, both individual and social. He argues that a Christian practice of the political is embodied in Jesus' own torture at the hands of the powers of this world. The analysis of torture