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香港中文大学研究人员 ( 现职)
| Professor Michael Gerard O'SULLIVAN (英文系) |
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| 数位物件识别号 (DOI) http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2015.1134391 |
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摘要This paper examines philosopher Richard Swinburne’s recent account of Jesus’ humanity in order to assess the reasonableness of cognitivist renderings of the religious mystery of Incarnation. Swinburne’s reading is positioned alongside a phenomenological and a literary rendering of this mystery in order to show up the potential limitations of representing Jesus’ Incarnation as a matter of mind, rather than a matter of pathos and embodied weakness. The paper also contrasts Swinburne’s description of mind with recent neurobiological accounts of the mind. Shame is one concept in the literary and philosophical renderings of Incarnation that privileges such affective states as pathos and weakness. Swinburne’s reading of Jesus in terms of “mind”, “consciousness” and what he describes as Jesus’ “divided mind” brackets shame by denying the Incarnate God any possibility of “do[ing] wrong” (45) while admitting that “in the situation of temptation, he [Jesus] could have felt as we do” (45). After reading Swinburne alongside phenomenological accounts of this mystery, the second half of the paper contrasts Swinburne’s reading of incarnation with T.S. Eliot’s literary rendering of a similar incarnational “divided mind” in Four Quartets.
着者O'Sullivan M.
期刊名称Cogent Arts and Humanities
详细描述Taylor & Francis Journal.
出版年份2http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/016
月份1
日期1
卷号3
期次1
国际标準期刊号2331-1983
语言英式英语
关键词Christian phenomenology, Incarnation, Richard Swinburne, Shame, T.S. Eliot
