“In Flesh and Bones”
Abstract Everyone can agree that the mystery of the Incarnation is difficult to believe and to understand, and yet it is precisely what Christians do not cease to profess. The most innocent questions concerning the “carnal consistency” of the Resurrected One today are omitted for want of a suitable...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2021
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Journal for continental philosophy of religion
Year: 2021, Volume: 3, Issue: 1, Pages: 3-26 |
| Further subjects: | B
Incarnation
B resurrected body B Thomas Aquinas B lived body B Karl Marx B spread body |
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| Summary: | Abstract Everyone can agree that the mystery of the Incarnation is difficult to believe and to understand, and yet it is precisely what Christians do not cease to profess. The most innocent questions concerning the “carnal consistency” of the Resurrected One today are omitted for want of a suitable and contemporary anthropology for us to ask them. But that a body made of “flesh and bones” can indeed now claim to appear and reappear in what we ordinarily call a horizon of reality or objectivity goes against our faculties of thought and even imagination. Philosophy must aim to render comprehensible this mystery of a God made body. |
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| ISSN: | 2588-9613 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for continental philosophy of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/25889613-bja10011 |