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    The Flesh of God

    Emmanuel Falque (Author), George Hughes (Translated by)

    9781531513924

    Paperback / softback, published 4 August 2026

    272 pages
    22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm, 0.408 kg

    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.

    Opening: The Incredulity of Saint Thomas 1

    Introduction: In Flesh and Bones 7
    The Fear of the Body, 8

    • Of Flesh and Bones, 9
    • Phenomenology of the Flesh, 11
    • In Flesh and Bones or "in
      Person," 12
    • The Weidenhausen Bridge, 13
    • The Richness of the
      Perceived, 15
    • Phenomenology of Christ in Flesh and Bones, 15
    • The Eleven, 16
    • Thomas the Apostle, 17
    • Body-to-Body or
      Flesh-to-Flesh, 18
    • Philosophy of the Body, 19
    • A Praxis of the
      Body, 20
    • The Real Human "in Flesh and Bones," 21 • Against
      Idealism of the Flesh, 23
    • Praxis of Christ in Flesh and Bones, 25
    • Encharnellement [En-flesh-ment], 27

      Part 1: From Suffering to Passage: A Philosophical Passion

      1 This Is My Body: Holy Thursday 35
      1. Philosophy to Its Limit, 37
    • 2. The Passover of Animality, 39
    • 3. Hoc est Corpus Meum, 41
    • 4. The Power of the Body, 45
    • 5. Eros Eucharistized, 47
    • 6. Abiding [La manence], 52

      2 Suffering Death: Good Friday 54
      7. The Scenarios of Death, 56
    • 8. The Doomed Staging, 57

    • 9. Fear and Anxiety, 59
    • 10. Suffering Occluded, 64
    • 11. Useless Suffering, 65
    • 12. Suffering Incarnate, 66
    • 13. The Incorporation of Humankind in God, 67

    • 14. The Surplus of the Suffering Body, 68
    • 15. Suffering
      of the World, 69
    • 16. To Pass to the Father, 71

      3 Extra-Phenomenal God: Holy Saturday 73
      17. Holy Saturday and the Extra-Phenomenal, 75
    • 18. Hell and
      the Regions of the Dead, 77
    • 19. A Kenosis of Finitude, 80
    • 20. Silence and Oblivion, 84
    • 21. Ab-sence and Death of
      God, 87
    • 22. Solitude and "Being-with," 89

      4 Metamorphosis: Easter Sunday 94
      23. The Unsurpassable Immanence, 98
    • 24. Time in Terms of
      Time, 100
    • 25. Is There a Drama of Atheist Humanism?, 101

    • 26. Resurrection and the "Over-Resurrection" of the Body, 103

    • 27. The Resurrection Changes Everything, 108
    • 28. The
      Human Incorporated, 113
    • 29. The World Become Other, 114

    • 30. From Time to Eternity, 117
    • 31. A Flesh to Be Reborn, 118

      PART II: Solidity of the Body and Problem of the Soul: The Unit of the Triptych

      5 The Three Bodies 131
      32. The Living Body, 132
    • 33. The Suffering Body, 134
    • 34. The "Flesh" 135

      6 Flesh and Body 137
      35. The Obstacle of the Organic, 137
    • 36. Incorporation and
      Incarnation, 139
    • 37. The Numerical and the Constitutive, 141

      7 The Dead Body 148
      38. Finitude and Decomposition, 149
    • 39. The Dead
      Christ, 154
    • 40. Soul and Body, 159

      Part III: The Great Crossing

      8 The Hermeneutics Question 175
      41. What Hermeneutics in View?, 176
    • 42. Hermeneutics and
      the Senses of the Holy Scripture, 177
    • 43. Of the Body and the Voice, 180

      9 Deciding to Believe 183
      44. Irreducible Belief, 184
    • 45. Philosophy of Religious
      Experience, 185
    • 46. Deciding In Common, 187

      10 In Passing 190
      47. For a Recovery, 191
    • 48. To Each Its Own Path, 193
    • 49.
      Of the Meta-physical, 195
    • 50. Finally, Theology, 196

      Conclusion: Charitable God 199
      Agape or How Two Make Three, 200
    • Eros or the Sense of a
      Humano-Divine Empathy, 203
    • "Com-passion in Common"
      or the Conversion of Eros by Agape, 205


    Notes 211

    Index 247
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