Christ in a World of Creativity and Suffering:

We live in an intrinsically dynamic and interconnected creation. As a human being, Jesus Christ’s body was composed of material particles coming from the explosion of stars; his blood was red due to the iron running through his veins; and, like any other mammal, he was hosting a great hidden microbial world without which he could not sustain his life as a human being. In this lecture, Niels Henrik Gregersen presents his influential notion of “deep incarnation,” which draws on the broad-scale material meaning of the biblical concept of “flesh” as well as early patristic Christologies. He then relates these insights to the multifarious world of biology, with a particular focus on the development of biological agency and suffering. Join us for an exploration of the astonishing claim that the Word and Wisdom of God became flesh, with its radical implications for creaturely existence today.