Omnipresence and Divine Presence in the Eucharist

In various Christian traditions, Christ is said to be present in a special way in the Eucharist. In particular, many Christian churches claim that the ritual involves the ‘real presence’ of Christ. This gives rise to a number of interesting philosophical issues about divine presence. The focus for this chapter is on a couple of these: (i) how to interpret and make sense of the location claims involved in saying that Christ’s body and blood are really present in the Eucharist and (ii) how the general claim of God’s omnipresence might interact with the specific claim of Christ’s presence in the Eucharist.