theanthropophagy

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But the civilized, so-called, have gone the savage one better; they eat a god instead of a man, and so the savage's anthropophagy is now theanthropophagy.

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  1. See the quotation. Cardinal Perron … says that they [the primitive Christians] deny anthropophagy, but did not deny thean-thropophagy—saying, “that they did not eat the flesh, nor drink the blood of a mere man, but of Christ, who was God and man”:—which is so strange a device, as I wonder it-could drop from the pen of so great a wit. Jer. Taylor, Real Presence, xii. § 14.

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  • But the civilized, so-called, have gone the savage one better; they eat a god instead of a man, and so the savage's anthropophagy is now theanthropophagy. —  About.com Agnosticism / Atheism
 

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  1. from Greek θεάνθρωπος, the god-man (see theanthropy), + φαγεῖν, eat.
 

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