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Impanation, incarnation, and enabling externalism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2014

JAMES M. ARCADI
JAMES M. ARCADI*
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Department of Religion and Theology, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TH, UK e-mail: james.arcadi@gordon.edu
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Abstract

I articulate a real presence theory of the Eucharist that is coherent, attractive, and utilizes the resources of contemporary Christology. First, I review some of the recent analytic discussions of the metaphysics of the incarnation. From this, I distinguish two types of impanation, which I name Type-H and Type-S Impanation. I then expound Type-S Impanation utilizing the notion of enabling externalism. I raise two potential objections to this view, the responses to which allow me to highlight the incarnation-like coherence and attractiveness of this view as an exposition of the liturgical utterance ‘This is my body.’

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Religious Studies , Volume 51 , Issue 1 , March 2015 , pp. 75 - 90
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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