The metamorphosis of finitude : an essay on birth and resurrection /

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Nobody can be in the world unless he or she is born into the world. Yet, as Nicodemus asked, GHow can anyone be born after having grown old? Can one enter a second time into the motherGs womb and be born?G The modern Christian needs to find some way of understanding resurrection, and the dogma of th...

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Metamorphose de la finitude.
Main Author:
Falque, Emmanuel
Other Authors:
Hughes, George
Format:
Electronic eBook
Language:
English
Published:
New York : Fordham University Press, 2012.
Edition:
1st ed.
Summary:
Nobody can be in the world unless he or she is born into the world. Yet, as Nicodemus asked, GHow can anyone be born after having grown old? Can one enter a second time into the motherGs womb and be born?G 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 phen
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1 online resource (214 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.
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English
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-8232-4650-7
Subjects:
Birth (Philosophy)
Resurrection.
Finite, The.
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