Demonic Bodies and the Dark Ecologies of Early Christian Culture by Travis W. Proctor;

Author:Travis W. Proctor;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: OUP Premium
Published: 2022-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

Clement here constructs a dichotomy between Greco-Roman and Christian ritual performance: whereas Christian contemplative practices entail the divestment from the body and union with the divine, Greco-Roman sacrifices entangle the body with the fattened flesh of the animals of the lower cosmos.92 This dichotomy is evident especially in the elements that constitute the rites’ respective “meals”: while the Gnostic Christian “feeds” on knowledge of the incorporeal divine, Greco-Roman traditionalists consume the meat of an animal notable only for its “swollen” flesh. In support of this adversative construction, Clement cites Plato’s Republic:

Wherefore also Plato says, in the second book of the Republic, “It is those that sacrifice not a sow, but some great and difficult sacrifice,” who ought to inquire respecting God. And the apostle writes, “Christ our Passover was a sacrifice for us,” a sacrifice hard to procure in truth, the Son of God consecrated for us. (5.10; emphasis mine; cf. 1 Cor 5:7)93

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