New post up over at my Reluctant Vegan blog, in which I talk about Fr. Robert Capon's great cookbook and paean to sacramentalism, "The Supper of the Lamb," and how its message connects to the Catholic technology critic Albert Borgmann's views of how technology alienates us from our God-given humanity. (Now that's a mouthful):
Father Capon's book is a delirious, impassioned tribute to sacramentality -- the principle that spiritual realities are mediated by and expressed through the material world. "Supper of the Lamb" is a rebuke to the way we eat and regard food in modernity. Capon tells us that we have a spiritual obligation to stop and think about how we eat, and to delight in it. It's about care and pleasure taken in cooking as reflective of a deeper and spiritually serious approach to life. Focus on delight: if eating is seen only as a moral act, and not also an aesthetic one, then, warns Father C., "religion devours life" and "creation becomes too meaningful to make love to."What does a priest's amour fou with cooking have to do with technological society? Read on...
Go to Reluctant Vegan to read more, and to comment. There's a link to a great essay by Andy Crouch about how we who live in a technological age need to practice ascesis by making things more difficult at times, to remind us of who we are and what reality is. I think Lent is like that too.
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His name is Father Capon? Does he know a Bishop Gelding?
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