Body-symbols and social reality: Resurrection, incarnation and asceticism in early ChristianityMary Douglas has invited historians of religion to test her hypothesis about the social meaning of body symbols. Her view that body symbolism always points in the direction of social concerns and that ...
Vaishnava Hinduism ascribes ten incarnations (avatars) to the god Vishnu, while Christianity proclaims the sole incarnation of God the Son as Jesus Christ. Could they be equivalent? In other words, could Jesus Christ be considered a mere Western avatar, who has come into our world according to...
Christianity is blotted out of existence. Incarnation ceases to have any meaning. There is no place in the universe for the Incarnate Son, and no need of Him. But we may briefly note the doctrine of the Immanency of God, now often presented, which, though not denying His personality, or...
Even the title spells this out to us. The chinese characters Ling Long translate to the phrase "spirit cage" which is very similar but slightly different to the meaning of the English word incarnation. An incarnation is said to be a deity or spirit inhabiting flesh, the proper translation of...
By my experiences communicating with my son, Jeremy, after his physical death (see book “From Jeremy With Love” (attached at top) and earlier posts (at bottom)) and by the teachings of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism, I have witnessed and am sure there is a continuation of ...
Christianity Jesus two natures of Christ Virgin Birth Angelus See all related content Incarnation, central Christian doctrine that God became flesh, that God assumed a human nature and became a man in the form of Jesus Christ, the Son of God and the second person of the Trinity. Christ was ...
Only in Christianity does God dismember himself, or become historical—sacrifice himself, die—in order to know and become himself. But this "death of God" is for Hegel the very meaning of modern subjectivity. For this reason, or if Hegel is right, the Hegelian subject constitutes the sole ...
2002. I Am the Truth: Toward a Philosophy of Christianity. Edited by Mieke Bal and Hent de Vries. Translated by Susan Emanuel. Cultural Memory in the Present. Stanford: Stanford University Press. [Google Scholar] Henry, Michel. 2008. Material Phenomenology. Edited by John Caputo. Translated ...
and more particularly in its interpretation by Christ in the Christian Gospels,10 an affirmation of the creative fecundity of difference: "in the eyes of the founder of Christianity, there [was] no other origin but sexual differentiation, or no other beginning but humanity differentiated" (Falque...