THE CENTER FOR POSITIVE THOUGHT: Good Materialism

Jesus tells his followers about his theory of good materialism: transubstantiation (Vicente Masip – The Last Supper 1562)

The worry that we are too materialistic is an inevitable one in modern consumer society. The answer, surprisingly, is that there are better and worse versions of materialism.

In the Catholic Mass, great significance is accorded to bread and wine, which are believed to be transubstantiations of Christ; that is, material objects which simultaneously have a spiritual identity, just as Jesus himself combined the spiritual and the bodily while on earth. MORE