The body - what is it? What are its limits? How do we understand the concept in terms of the Word, the Church, Jesus of Nazareth, the brain, the environment, and ourselves? This course attempts a joyful approach to the theological category of "incarnation," broadly understood. In Christianity, incarnation refers to God's presence as "man" amongst humankind, the "limiting" of an eternal God in the finite, poignantly frail form made available by the human body. Methodologically, the course moves dialectically between scripture, theological textual sources, and mystical writings, on the one hand, and theoretical works from philosophy, cognitive science and psychoanalysis on the other.

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