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The Metamorphosis of Finitude: An Essay on Birth and Resurrection

The Metamorphosis of Finitude: An Essay on Birth and Resurrection

Emmanuel Falque ,  George Hughes

9780823239214

Fordham University Press


Phenomenology & Existentialism; Religion & beliefs; Philosophy of religion; Christian theology

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224 pages

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Nobody can be in the world unless he or she is born into the world. Yet, as Nicodemus asked, How can anyone be born after having grown old? Can one enter a second time into the mother's womb and be born? The modern Christian needs to find some way of understanding resurrection, and the dogma of the resurrection of the body is vacuous unless we can relate it philosophically to our own world of experience. This book performs that act of relating by reading resurrection in the context of contemporary philosophy, notably Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and Deleuze. It shows how a phenomenology of the body born from below can be seen as a paradigm for a theology of spiritual rebirth, and for rebirth of the body from on high. The Resurrection changes everything in Christianity - but our own bodies must also be transformed in resurrection, as Christ is transfigured. And the way in which one hopes to be resurrected bodily in God, in the future, depends upon the way in which one lives bodily today.

By:   Emmanuel Falque
Translated by:   George Hughes
Imprint:   Fordham University Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 15mm,  Width: 229mm,  Spine: 152mm
Weight:   456g
ISBN:  

9780823239214


ISBN 10:   0823239217
Series:   Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   April 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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