Torture and Eucharist

William T. Cavanaugh is Assistant Professor of Religion at the University of St Thomas, St Paul, Minnesota. He is the author of several articles, including A Fire Strong Enough to Consume the House: The Wars of Religion and the Rise of the State (Modern Theology, Vol. 11 No. 4, 1995).

Acknowledgements. Introduction.
Part I: Torture and Disappearance as an Ecclesiological Problem:.
1. Torture as Liturgy.
2. Torture and Fragmentation.
3. The Striptease of Power.
4. Habeas Corpus.
Conclusion.
Part II: The Church Learns How to be Oppressed:.
5. Christians for Socialism.
6."Torture Isn't Everything".
7. The Stubborn Monkey.
8. "I Am Jesus, Whom You Are Persecuting".
9. The Church as Russia.
Part III: The Ecclesiology of a Disappearing Church:.
10. An Amiable Divorce.
11. The Rise of "Social Catholicism".
12. Catholic Action in Chile.
Part IV: A Distinction of Planes:.
13. Maritain Among Us.
14. The Minimum of Body.
15. New Christendom.
16. The Disappearance of the Church.
17. The End of the Story.
Part V: The True Body of Christ:.
18. The Mystical and the True.
19. Until He Comes.
20. Re-membering Christ.
21. Making the Body Visible.
Part VI: Performing the Body of Christ:.
22. "But Father, Look at This Body".
23. Knitting the Social Fabric.
24. Mysterious Channels.
25. Torture and Eucharist.
Index.

Contends that the Eucharist is the Church's response to the use of torture as a social discipline. This book develops a theology of the political which presents torture as one instance of a larger confrontation of powers over bodies, both individual and social.