Espen Dahl is a professor of systematic theology and philosophy of religion at the University of TromsØ—the Arctic University of Norway.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Phenomenology and Incarnation2. The Body between Matter and Form3. “I Cannot”: The Passivity of the Body4. Touch and Skin5. The Inner Contradictions of Pain6. Communicating Pain7. Incarnation and the Cross8. Embodied HopeCodaNotesBibliographyIndex

"Crossing traditional disciplinary boundary lines, Espen Dahl’s insightful book engages an extremely impressive array of contemporary scholarship thoughtfully and critically while also advancing a novel phenomenological sense of the lived body."—​Christina M. Gschwandtner, Fordham University"An outstanding achievement, bearing the fruit of many years of meticulous scholarship and deep thought on its philosophical-theological topic."—Drew Leder, Loyola University Maryland

Espen Dahl is a professor of systematic theology and philosophy of religion at the University of TromsØ—the Arctic University of Norway.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Phenomenology and Incarnation2. The Body between Matter and Form3. “I Cannot”: The Passivity of the Body4. Touch and Skin5. The Inner Contradictions of Pain6. Communicating Pain7. Incarnation and the Cross8. Embodied HopeCodaNotesBibliographyIndex

"Crossing traditional disciplinary boundary lines, Espen Dahl’s insightful book engages an extremely impressive array of contemporary scholarship thoughtfully and critically while also advancing a novel phenomenological sense of the lived body."—​Christina M. Gschwandtner, Fordham University"An outstanding achievement, bearing the fruit of many years of meticulous scholarship and deep thought on its philosophical-theological topic."—Drew Leder, Loyola University Maryland

Espen Dahl is a professor of systematic theology and philosophy of religion at the University of TromsØ—the Arctic University of Norway.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Phenomenology and Incarnation2. The Body between Matter and Form3. “I Cannot”: The Passivity of the Body4. Touch and Skin5. The Inner Contradictions of Pain6. Communicating Pain7. Incarnation and the Cross8. Embodied HopeCodaNotesBibliographyIndex

"Crossing traditional disciplinary boundary lines, Espen Dahl’s insightful book engages an extremely impressive array of contemporary scholarship thoughtfully and critically while also advancing a novel phenomenological sense of the lived body."—​Christina M. Gschwandtner, Fordham University"An outstanding achievement, bearing the fruit of many years of meticulous scholarship and deep thought on its philosophical-theological topic."—Drew Leder, Loyola University Maryland