Metamorphosis of Finitude An Essay on Birth and Resurrection

Name: Metamorphosis of Finitude An Essay on Birth and Resurrection
Price: 30.26 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780823239214

ISBN-10: 0823239217

ISBN-13: 9780823239214

Edition: 2012

Authors: Emmanuel Falque, George Hughes

List price: $36.00

This item qualifies for FREE shipping.

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Sell

Get cash fast!

Buy new: $36.30

Marketplace

3 new & used from $30.26

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

This book starts off from a philosophical premise: nobody can be in the world unless they are born into the world. It examines this premise in the light of the theological belief that birth serves, or ought to serve, as a model for understanding what resurrection could signify for us today.After all, 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. Nicodemus first posed the question "How can anyone be born after having grown old? Can one enter a second time into the mother's womb and be born?" This book reads that problem in the context…

Book details

List price: $36.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication date: 6/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 214
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

George Hughes has served as Professor in the Faculty of Letters at the University of Tokyo.



Preface to the English Edition


Preface: The Beaune Altarpiece, or "The Germination of the Resurrected"


Introduction: To be Transformed



From Death to Birth



The Dialogue with Nicodemus



The Heuristic Approach and Didactic Exposition



Prï¿½cis of Finitude



Impassable Immanence



The Immanence in Question



The Preemption of the Infinite



Christian Specificity and the Ordinariness of the Flesh



From Time to Time



The Drift of Time



The Passage of Time



The Burden of Time



Is There a Drama of Atheist Humanism?



The Death of God, or the Death of Christianity?



Atheism from the Theologians Viewpoint



The Forbidden "Why?"



Toward a Metamorphosis



Resurrection and the Over-resurrection of the Body



The Debate with Nietzsche



Corporality in St. Paul



A Phenomenal Body-to-Body Confrontration



The Resurrection Changes Everything



The Ordeal of the Father



The Apperceptive Transposition of the Son



The Holy Spirit as the Son Metamorphosed by the Father



The Incorporation of the Human Being



The Monadologic Hypothesis



Incorporation in the Trinity



He Who Sees and He Who Runs



Phenomenology of the Resurrection



The World Become Other



The Earth and the Heavens



Creation and Separation



Another Way of Living the Same World



From Time to Eternity



The Instant of Eternity



The Joy of Birth



The Birth and Knowledge of God



A Flesh for Rebirth



Birth and Rebirth



The Fleshly Body and the Body Resurrected



Withdrawal of the Body and Manifestation of the Flesh


Conclusion: Waiting for Bodies to Arise


Notes


Index