SUNY PRESS The Manifest and the Revealed: c (SUNY series in Theology and Continental Thought)

Product Description What is scripture and how does it function? Is there a scientific way to understand its meaning? In answer, Adam Wells proposes a phenomenological approach to scripture that radicalizes both phenomenology and its relation to Christianity. By reading the kenōsis hymn (Philippians 2:5-11) alongside the work of Edmund Husserl, Wells develops a kenotic reduction that rehabilitates the Husserlian idea of absolute science while also disclosing the radical philosophical implications of Paul's new creation. More broadly, The Manifest and the Revealed pushes the fields of phenomenology and biblical studies forward. The turn to scripture, as a source for theological and philosophical reflection, marks an important advance for the recent theological turn in phenomenology. At the same time, by bringing to light the incredible complexity of scripture, phenomenology provides a ay for contemporary biblical studies to exceed its own limits. Wells demonstrates how phenomenology and scripture ultimately illuminate one another in profound and surprising ways. Review The book joins careful and patient scholarship with a not-so-common ambition and daring in the multiple disciplinary contexts that it disrupts and illuminates. -- W. Chris Hackett, coauthor of Quiet Powers of the Possible: Interviews in Contemporary French Phenomenology About the Author Adam Y. Wells is Assistant Professor of Religion at Emory & Henry College and the editor of Phenomenologies of Scripture.