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Ángel Francisco Méndez Montoya

Angel F. Mendez Montoya is a full-time professor in the Department of Religious Sciences of the Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico City. He is the author of The Theology of Food: Eating and the Eucharist.

Essays

Bread, Hunger, and Commensality: Food Symbols of Emancipation and Solidarity in the Theopolitical Imagination of Jesus in the Gospels

Bread is given to satisfy not only material hunger, but also to respond to emotional, political, and spiritual hunger: it expresses a desire for fraternal and sororal relationships, a desire for the Other.