James E. Faulconer

James E. Faulconer (Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University) is a professor of philosophy at Brigham Young University, where, from 2008 to 2013, he also served as Richard L. Evans Professor of Religious Understanding. At BYU, he has chaired the Department of Philosophy and served as the dean of undergraduate studies. In addition, he has been a visiting professor at the Institute of Philosophy of the Catholic University of Leuven (“Louvain”) in Belgium, and spent a year on research leave at the Bibliothèque d’École Normale Supérieure, in Paris.

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The Transcendence of Flesh, Divine and Human

by James E. Faulconer | undefined 39 | 09-14-2020

[Page 299]Abstract: In this essay, James E Faulconer confronts an age-old issue that seems to divide Latter-day Saint Christians from other Christians, namely, “what it means to say that God is transcendent and embodied.” Early Christians also believed that God is embodied and transcendent, but with important differences in how that seemingly paradoxical combination of […]

The Transcendence of Flesh, Divine and Human

by James E. Faulconer | 09-14-2020

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