Dualismo Eucarístico e justaposição de modelos

Abstract

The research “Eucharistic dualism and juxtaposition of models” presents the thesis of Zeno Carra in the work Hoc Facite, to overcome the problem of Eucharistic dualism that runs through the history of fundamental theology, liturgy and the Eucharistic rite, that is, the question, in general, is how to recognize the presence of God today and how to experience, in particular, the presence of Christ in the Eucharist in contemporary times? The aim is to critically explicate the Eucharistic model of Thomas Aquinas and Sacrosanctum Concilium to show the need for a new ecclesial Eucharistic understanding and practice. Initially, Thomas inherits the controversy between “weak sign” and “em-pirical physicalism” over Christ’s presence in the eucharist. To resolve this dilemma, he turns to the Aristotelian philosophy of substance-accident categories and explains the change of the species of bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ through the theory of transubstantiation. Carra acknowledges the Thomasian effort; however, he points out epistemological deficits inherent in this theory, which lead to Eucharistic dua-lism in his model. Later, the Second Vatican Council, through Sacrosanctum Concilium , takes up the theological advances of the 20th century liturgical movement, yet the final text still juxtaposes two models: the Thomasian-Tridentine and the liturgical movement. Faced with this dual-justapositive challenge, Zeno Carra proposes the ontological-re-lational model of the Eucharistic event, that is, it is a matter of articulating a relational model that is constituted by a relational whole through the poles: Christ, human being, Church, rite, and species of bread and wine.