Give us today our daily bread: towards a phenomenological theology of embodied finitude
In order to develop a phenomenological theology of embodied finitude, I first turn to the not-uncontroversial concept of kenosis. Drawing on the kenosis hymn in Philippians 2, as well as feminist and Eastern Orthodox thought, I argue for a relational understanding of kenosis that does not correspond...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
2023
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Practical theology
Year: 2023, Volume: 16, Issue: 3, Pages: 397-410 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality HC New Testament NBE Anthropology NBF Christology |
| Further subjects: | B
Phenomenology
B Finitude B Embodiment B Kenosis B Deep Incarnation |
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| Summary: | In order to develop a phenomenological theology of embodied finitude, I first turn to the not-uncontroversial concept of kenosis. Drawing on the kenosis hymn in Philippians 2, as well as feminist and Eastern Orthodox thought, I argue for a relational understanding of kenosis that does not correspond to the conventional ‘self-emptying’ of kenotic theology. This is, in part, due to the experience of embodiment, which I turn to in my second section. Drawing upon phenomenological resources to articulate the nature of the embodiment as flesh, I argue that the intersubjective and interrelated constitution of the flesh grounds an understanding of kenosis and begins to articulate what embodied finitude is. I bring into this conversation the notion of ‘deep incarnation’, which reveals one of the depths of finitude: bodily need. In my final section, I explicate a reading of the Lord’s Prayer as part of a spirituality that embraces embodied finitude and incarnate need. Here, I distinguish between need and desire, with relational kenosis aiming at plerosis, that is, human flourishing as love. |
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| ISSN: | 1756-0748 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Practical theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1756073X.2023.2211877 |