Table of Contents
Preface to the English Edition ix
Preface: The Beaune Altarpiece, or "The Germination of the Resurrected" xiii
Introduction: To be Transformed 1
1 From Death to Birth 2
2 The Dialogue with Nicodemus 4
3 The Heuristic Approach and Didactic Exposition 6
Part I Précis of Finitude 11
1 Impassable Immanence 15
4 The Immanence in Question 15
5 The Preemption of the Infinite 16
6 Christian Specificity and the Ordinariness of the Flesh 19
2 From Time to Time 21
7 The Drift of Time 22
8 The Passage of Time 25
9 The Burden of Time 27
3 Is There a Drama of Atheist Humanism? 30
10 The Death of God, or the Death of Christianity? 30
11 Atheism from the Theologians Viewpoint 33
12 The Forbidden "Why?" 36
Part II Toward a Metamorphosis 41
4 Resurrection and the Over-resurrection of the Body 47
13 The Debate with Nietzsche 47
14 Corporality in St. Paul 53
15 A Phenomenal Body-to-Body Confrontration 56
5 The Resurrection Changes Everything 62
16 The Ordeal of the Father 64
17 The Apperceptive Transposition of the Son 67
18 The Holy Spirit as the Son Metamorphosed by the Father 75
6 The Incorporation of the Human Being 81
19 The Monadologic Hypothesis 81
20 Incorporation in the Trinity 84
21 He Who Sees and He Who Runs 88
Part III Phenomenology of the Resurrection 91
7 The World Become Other 95
22 The Earth and the Heavens 95
23 Creation and Separation 98
24 Another Way of Living the Same World 102
8 From Time to Eternity 112
25 The Instant of Eternity 112
26 The Joy of Birth 116
27 The Birth and Knowledge of God 124
9 A Flesh for Rebirth 127
28 Birth and Rebirth 128
29 The Fleshly Body and the Body Resurrected 135
30 Withdrawal of the Body and Manifestation of the Flesh 143
Conclusion: Waiting for Bodies to Arise 149
Notes 155
Index 191