Incarnation, Now: Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Ending

Bridges Don’t Make Themselves: Using Community-Based Theater to Reshape Relationships: Rethinking the Idea of Abundance in ABCD

“…These cultivated lived experiences change awareness of participants from stranger, to acquaintance, to neighbor in an endeavor to recalibrate the lived experience of 'community.' The essence of this process is beautifully summarized by Gumbrecht [56] regarding the transition away from fixed, unaltering, and power-driven Cartesian reality, "In the process of Modernization, the dream of becoming perfectly "Cartesian" has thus been so perfectly fulfilled that we seem to have lost any material concreteness to hold onto…more so, perhaps, than we are to existentially afford. For our bodies have been reduced to a mere energy base for our minds, struggling to find pleasure and a dignity of their own" (pp.…”

“…The pivot away from Modernization as explicated by Gumbrecht [56], and as embodied by CBT, constitutes a process that effectively engages a comprehensive person, within the present, to change the conditions of communication and thus change the potential forms of interaction between self, other and world. This imaginary and communicatively interdependent process creates opportunities to engage the body and mind in action and change across diverse people and environments.…”

“…The performances in both cases were a complex augmentation of personal boundaries between participants and audiences, but as well as the boundaries between local life and the narratives of the performances. Acting as sites of cultural renewal and change [61], the drama of the performances narratively created a deeper social ontological heterogeneity to serve dialogic functions assisting in the creation of relationships between people and the theaters [56]. The broken open spaces within the theaters served as an opportunity for social relationality/collaboration/dialogue beyond the confines of the theaters.…”

L’Incarnation comme communication, ou l’auto-communication de Dieu en régime chrétien

“…Il y aurait ainsi une « simpliication extrême du sacré » en régime chrétien. « La seule réalité sacrée », explique toujours Claude Geffré, reliant implicitement l'incarnation à l'eucharistie, qui l'institue (Gumbrecht, 2011), « c'est le corps du Christ. » (Geffré, 1974 : 148).…”