The Flesh of God - (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy) by Emmanuel Falque

Book Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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 book 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).