Still Hungry at the Feast: Eucharistic Justice in the Midst of Affliction

In chapters 3 through 7, Torvend takes on a breadth of themes related to how the Eucharist distinctively makes a claim upon Christians to respond to the world s suffering, specifically examining issues of food insecurity (chapter 3), environmental decay and the need for creation care (chapter 4), and economic injustices that are a product of unfettered consumerism (chapters 5-7). [...]as Torvend himself describes, citing a range of examples, "many voices . . . give witness throughout the centuries to an ethical Eucharist" (p. 97). Often, Torvend attributes this failure to what he terms "fundamentalist" approaches to Scripture and symbol (see pp. xii and 51), writing, on page 21, that "the storehouse of Christian tradition reveals a rich treasure of eucharistie images, a diverse array that stands in stark contrast to the fundamentalist preference for one unchanging viewpoint."