Meaning of theophage | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A god-eater, one who eats a god.
2. One who believes that the Eucharist is the body of God, and consumes it.

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Examples

“[…] "He's an immortal, a theophage like I am, like Ka'an and Medur -- gods. We were all mortal once, but he's forgotten that. He's eaten all the rest, and made the world think he's the only one. Now he's going to go eat Ka'an, and then he'll eat us."”

“The theophage who had devoured Deimos, the Greek god of terror, was flying away with the little girl I cared about, and I was totally okay with that. A pair of ruby eyes caught the light in the shadows across the street. A bouda[…]”

“[…] his eucharistic theology would presumably make unadulterated theophages (God-eaters) of us all. This in turn exposes a more general flaw in Eutychianism : a failure to make sufficient allowance for the distinctiveness of three the consubstantial Trinity. persons of We must also consider[…]”

“At this time Protestants particularly identified Catholics as cannibals because Catholics insisted on Christ's real presence in the host, devoured Him raw (not cooked) and as 'theophages' also necessarily became 'theochèzes' (ibid.:239).”

“[…] whereby Roman Catholics are cannibals, 'anthropophages' (anthropophagists), 'theophages' (god-eaters), 'theologastres' (god-gobblers), even 'Polyphages diffamées' (vilely excessive eaters). extremists also often sexualized their attacks on Roman Catholics, for instance: […]”

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