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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