Abstract
Abstract In the medieval world, the eucharistic host was used as a talisman to protect crops and for many other purposes. This was motivated by the justified belief that Christ materially preserves the created order, which was theologically developed by Hilary of Poitiers, Maximus the Confessor, and Martin Luther. From this perspective, matter is not self-sustaining but dependent upon a source of consistency external to it. The idea of Christ as the bond of substance, which follows from this, is developed philosophically by Gottfried Leibniz and Maurice Blondel. The cosmic context for the Eucharist is eloquently expressed in the starry vaults of some medieval churches, and by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. If the world is regarded as being, in some sense, God’s body, this idea needs to have a firm theological foundation.
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