Revelação e encarnação: a filosofia do cristianismo segundo Michel Henry

Abstract

This research intends to investigate how the flesh may be a revelation and how revelation becomes realized as flesh in Henry’s phenomenological proposal. There exists a relation between the phenomenology of the flesh and Christian incarnation. The flesh is not only the beginning of the constitution of the objective body, there is also an invisible substance in it. The Christian view of incarnation differs from the Greek and Jewish understanding. The incarnation of the word signifies its coming in living flesh, flesh which has its reality and living properties. The proposition of John “And the Word became flesh” (Job 1,14) is incompatible with Greek philosophy. Western philosophy, from the time if its Greek origins, recognises the visible world as the only form of manifestation, ignoring the invisible interior of life and its originative form of revelation. The phenomenology of life permits an approach to the question of the flesh and the body using new phenomenological presuppositions.