to enflesh

Examples

• All

• This means that the human person is preeminently sacramental, capable of enfleshing the life of God's love and making it productive in our world.

  Academic text (1991)

• At all events, I felt shorter during this period of soreness than I had since eighth grade, when every last girl in town seemed a tower enfleshed.

  Fiction book (1994)

• God, the Spirit enfleshed in creation, experiences the agony of an earth under siege.

  Academic text (2000)

• Because God as Spirit is enfleshed within creation, God experiences within the core of her deepest self the agony and suffering of an earth under siege.

  Academic text (2000)

• That Advent I learned from experience that the incarnate Word was also enfleshed within those broken bodies, and the spirit of a living, loving God hovered over and within everyone.

  Academic text (2014)

• From this viewpoint, as the God who knows death through the cross of Jesus is the crucified God, so also is the Spirit who enfleshes divine presence in nature the wounded Spirit.

  Academic text (2000)

• Now the earth's waters, winds, birds, and fires will not be regarded only as symbols of the Spirit but rather as sharing in her very being as the Spirit is enfleshed and embodied through natural organisms and processes.

  Academic text (2000)

• Quintessentially, then, both Spirit and Earth are life-givers: the Spirit ensouls the Earth with the quickening breath of divine life, and the Earth enfleshes the Spirit as it offers spiritual and physical sustenance to all living things.

  Academic text (2000)

• It is easy to see how this conception of reproduction as an individual or personal act would follow from postmodern or post-Christian conceptions of freedom: here, the freedom to reproduce is the liberty to enflesh one's own desires, to enact one's conception of the future.

  Academic text (2010)

• In her wounds, we see God's refusal to remain aloof from creation—apathetic, unmoved, uncaring—just insofar as God decided to enflesh herself in all of the processes and life forms that constitute life as we know it.

  Academic text (2000)

Synonyms

I

to incarnate

vsto enflesh

• Formal

1 7.3

Take a real human or animal body

is about giving physical shape to abstract or spiritual things

Antonyms

D

to disembody

• Literature

1 8.3

To separate a mind or experience from its physical body

How Physical

to incarnate

• Formal

1 7.3

to enflesh

• Literature

1 9.9

to materialize

63 5.8

to embody

104 5.1

to personify

27 6.1

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology