Greccio. Poznámky k františkánskej fenomenológii vtelenia
Greccio. Notes on the Franciscan Phenomenology of the Incarnation

Summary/Abstract: The author discusses the Franciscan phenomenology of the incarnation as elaborated and understood by Francis of Assisi and Bonaventure of Bagnoregio. He views their thought from the positions of Michel Henry and Emmanuel Falque. He argues that we are heirs to Bonaventure’s exemplarism, a symbolic vision of the world. However, his meaning is not exhausted in glimpsing analogy but in making it present, in a transformative symbolic experience. It is the Franciscan task to discover this sensuous, bodily way of inhabiting the world to which we are alienated, but which constantly envelops us in a proportions of beauty. Conversion to God happens as conversion to the world. Without moralizing, without condemnation, nodding at everything, rejoicing in all its good; suffering its every pain, tribulation, every injustice. Our body is to read the book of the world, the symbols, the metaphors of things, to sift through the text of the world as if through a thicket – as Bonaventure says in Breviloquio – and thus to be transformed ... and thus become a true, unsentimental heir, heir of Greecia.

• Details
• Contents