Theologian David McLoughlin explores Jesus’ radical teaching on food and hunger.
Anthropologists tell us that if we know what, where, how, when and with whom people eat then we know the character of their society. This is as true of Jesus’ time as it is of ours. Jesus’ stories of the open table fellowship of the Kingdom are shocking.
He tells of invitations to meals that do not map against class, or gender, or status or moral worth. He seems to have acted out his own teaching eating with men and women of any and every station ignoring distinctions.
The Pharisees, in particular, clashed with Jesus over his eating practice. To maintain the purity of Jewish life in the face of foreign influences they had taken all the dietary and purity rules applicable to the Priests and Temple practice and adapted them to the table of the home.
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