Embracing Finitude

Emmanuel Falque, Phenomenology, and Christ

First view of the Isenheim Altarpiece. Borrowed from Wikipedia.

I’ve been slowly making my way through French phenomenologist Emmanuel Falque’s The Guide to Gethsemane: Anxiety, Suffering, Death, which has done what the best books do: pointed out problems I never saw on my own, dismantled them, and suggested better alternatives.