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A remarkable interrogation of the corporeality of the divine undertaken by a renowned philosopher/theologian Does God appear ""in flesh and bones,"" that is to say, ""made of flesh and bones""? Or is the resurrected Christ’s appearance simply ""in person""? These questions, which might appear inconsequential at first sight, obsessed the Fathers of the church and medieval scholars, but are neglected nowadays. Perhaps we no longer dare to ask them to ourselves. The Flesh of God attempts to return to what Paul Ricoeur calls a ""second naïveté,"" analyzing important questions concerning the Resurrection and trying to face head-on the problem of the embodiment of the divine. This book retraces a philosophical triduum (Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter Sunday) but also highlights the crucial and neglected topic of Holy Saturday. It emphasizes that Christianity can no longer sustain itself by forgetting the organic and disregarding the soul. Far from getting bogged down in questions of boundaries, or erecting barriers, we come back in the book to finding out how we can ""cross the Rubicon"" between philosophy and theology. The confrontation of these disciplines and their different fields can revitalize thought and faith, for those who feel the importance of sharing it.
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Author: Emmanuel Falque , George Hughes
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Imprint: Fordham University Press
ISBN: 9781531513917
ISBN 10: 1531513913
Pages: 268
Publication Date: 04 August 2026
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Table of Contents
Opening: The Incredulity of Saint Thomas 1 Introduction: In Flesh and Bones 7 The Fear of the Body, 8 Of Flesh and Bones, 9 Phenomenology of the Flesh, 11 In Flesh and Bones or ""in Person,"" 12 The Weidenhausen Bridge, 13 The Richness of the Perceived, 15 Phenomenology of Christ in Flesh and Bones, 15 The Eleven, 16 Thomas the Apostle, 17 Body-to-Body or Flesh-to-Flesh, 18 Philosophy of the Body, 19 A Praxis of the Body, 20 The Real Human ""in Flesh and Bones,"" 21 • Against Idealism of the Flesh, 23 Praxis of Christ in Flesh and Bones, 25 Encharnellement [En-flesh-ment], 27 Part 1: From Suffering to Passage: A Philosophical Passion 1 This Is My Body: Holy Thursday 35 1. Philosophy to Its Limit, 37 2. The Passover of Animality, 39 3. Hoc est Corpus Meum, 41 4. The Power of the Body, 45 5. Eros Eucharistized, 47 6. Abiding [La manence], 52 2 Suffering Death: Good Friday 54 7. The Scenarios of Death, 56 8. The Doomed Staging, 57 9. Fear and Anxiety, 59 10. Suffering Occluded, 64 11. Useless Suffering, 65 12. Suffering Incarnate, 66 13. The Incorporation of Humankind in God, 67 14. The Surplus of the Suffering Body, 68 15. Suffering of the World, 69 16. To Pass to the Father, 71 3 Extra-Phenomenal God: Holy Saturday 73 17. Holy Saturday and the Extra-Phenomenal, 75 18. Hell and the Regions of the Dead, 77 19. A Kenosis of Finitude, 80 20. Silence and Oblivion, 84 21. Ab-sence and Death of God, 87 22. Solitude and ""Being-with,"" 89 4 Metamorphosis: Easter Sunday 94 23. The Unsurpassable Immanence, 98 24. Time in Terms of Time, 100 25. Is There a Drama of Atheist Humanism?, 101 26. Resurrection and the ""Over-Resurrection"" of the Body, 103 27. The Resurrection Changes Everything, 108 28. The Human Incorporated, 113 29. The World Become Other, 114 30. From Time to Eternity, 117 31. A Flesh to Be Reborn, 118 PART II: Solidity of the Body and Problem of the Soul: The Unit of the Triptych 5 The Three Bodies 131 32. The Living Body, 132 33. The Suffering Body, 134 34. The ""Flesh"" 135 6 Flesh and Body 137 35. The Obstacle of the Organic, 137 36. Incorporation and Incarnation, 139 37. The Numerical and the Constitutive, 141 7 The Dead Body 148 38. Finitude and Decomposition, 149 39. The Dead Christ, 154 40. Soul and Body, 159 Part III: The Great Crossing 8 The Hermeneutics Question 175 41. What Hermeneutics in View?, 176 42. Hermeneutics and the Senses of the Holy Scripture, 177 43. Of the Body and the Voice, 180 9 Deciding to Believe 183 44. Irreducible Belief, 184 45. Philosophy of Religious Experience, 185 46. Deciding In Common, 187 10 In Passing 190 47. For a Recovery, 191 48. To Each Its Own Path, 193 49. Of the Meta-physical, 195 50. Finally, Theology, 196 Conclusion: Charitable God 199 Agape or How Two Make Three, 200 Eros or the Sense of a Humano-Divine Empathy, 203 ""Com-passion in Common"" or the Conversion of Eros by Agape, 205 Notes 211 Index 247
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Emmanuel Falque (Author) Emmanuel Falque is professor and honorary dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at the Institut Catholique of Paris. He is a specialist in medieval philosophy, phenomenology, and the philosophy of religion. His books published in English translation include a Philosophical Triduum: The Metamorphosis of Finitude; The Wedding Feast of the Lamb; The Guide to Gethsemane; and Crossing the Rubicon: The Borderlands of Philosophy and Theology. His most recent publications in English are: The Book of Experience: From Anselm of Canterbury to Bernard of Clairvaux; Spiritualism and Phenomenology: The case of Maine de Biran; and, with Nikolaas Cassidy-Deketlaere, The Emmanuel Falque Reader. George Hughes (Translator) George Hughes was formerly Professor of English and Comparative Literature in the Faculty of Letters at Tokyo University. He is the author of Reading Novels (2002) and the translator of four other books by Emmanuel Falque: The Metamorphosis of Finitude (2012), The Wedding Feast of the Lamb (2016), The Guide to Gethsemane (2019), and The Book of Experience (2024).
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