“the focus in that chapter is the sacrifice of Christ’s literal body”
You might want to read the chapter again...
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%2011&version=ESV
And yes, remembrance and proclamation DOES contradict re-presentation. If you are actively involved in the original event, it is not remembering, but participating.
Different words, different meanings.
It does in a strictly empirical science sense. But I never yielded to Bacon or Newton on matters of spirituality or metaphysics.
I'd say re-presant-ation is the BEST remembering, the best Ana (up) mnesis (= remembering.) I remember my first kiss. On a good day, I feel it on my lips, more years ago than I care to remember. It is, momentarily "here and now."
The problem is you guys don't think the Objects of the mind are real. You think Reality is confined to Baconian stuff, stuff you can weigh and cut up and burn.
I'm going to have to think about this.
G'night bros and sisses.
Even ordinarily that is not true. I can both remember being at my son's birth and celebrate it today with him. And my son is wholly human.
You problem is with St. Paul, not with me. He spoke of the physical body of Christ, then told us it is a damnable sin not to discern it in the celebration of the Last Supper.