To participate in the Eucharist is to live inside God's imagination. It is to be caught up into what is really real, the body of Christ. As human persons, body and soul, are incorporated into the performance of Christ's corpus verum, they resist the state's ability to define what is real through the mechanism of torture. Hardly anything remains to be said about imagination as a theological force. Except to note that clearly the need for Eucharistic imagination in the United States (Canada) is very different from the need for it in abusive contexts ... It may be, however, that torture and consumer satiation perform the same negative function: to deny lively communal imagination that resists mindless humanity of despairing conformity ... Numbness does not hurt like torture, but in quite a parallel way, numbness robs us of our capability for humanity.
Walter Brueggemann
Prophetic Imagination
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