Manifest and the Revealed

Adam Y. Wells is Assistant Professor of Religion at Emory & Henry College and the editor of Phenomenologies of Scripture.

• Acknowledgments ForewordKevin Hart Introduction: On Husserl’s Dream Part I: Theoretical Considerations: Phenomenology as an Absolute Science of Scripture Introduction to Part I 1. Phenomenology and Science in Husserl’s Early WorkA. Philosophy of Arithmetic and Logical Investigations B. Ideas I 2. The Genetic Transformation of Absolute ScienceA. Cartesian Meditations and Formal and Transcendental Logic B. The Crisis C. The Reduction from Givenness to Pre-givenness 3. Phenomenology as Self-Referential ScienceA. The Fracturing of Transcendental SubjectivityB. Mundane Science and PhenomenologyC. Absolute Science as Self-Referential Science Conclusion to Part I: Phenomenology Ex Vivo Part II: Absolute Science in Practice: The Kenotic Reduction Introduction to Part II 4. The Life and Times of Philippians 2:5−11A. The Hymn’s PurposeB. Christ’s Equality with GodC. Kenōsis and Exaltation: Feminist ReadingsD. Conclusion 5. Kenōsis and Phenomenological ReductionA. A Brief Aside: What Does it Mean to Read Phenomenologically?B. The Evolution of the Phenomenological ReductionC. The Initial Hypothesis: The Kenōsis Hymn as a Reduction from Cosmos to CreationD. Love and Power: Refining the Initial Hypothesis after the Kenotic ReductionE. Ramifications of the Kenotic Reduction for Scriptural StudiesF. Ramifications of the Kenotic Reduction for Phenomenology 6. Kenotic Time: Husserl and Apocalyptic EschatologyA. Apocalypses and Apocalyptic EschatologyB. Husserlian Options for Characterizing Kenotic Time7. Radicalizing Husserlian Temporality: Anticipation, Depresencing, and RepresencingA. The Phenomenality of AnticipationB. Time as DepresencingC. Kenotic Time as Eschatological Horizon: The Represencing of God ConclusionA. Precis B. Absolute Science and Biblical CriticismC. Absolute Science and Husserlian PhenomenologyD. Absolute Science and Christianity NotesBibliographyIndex

"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