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Adam Wells

2 Publications

The manifest and the revealed

Adam Wells

SUNY Press -

2018

What is scripture and how does it function? Is there a “scientific” way to understand its meaning? In answer, Adam Wells proposes a phenomenological approach to scripture that radicalizes both phenomenology and its relation to Christianity. By reading the “kenōsis hymn” (Philippians 2:5–11) alongside the work of Edmund Husserl, Wells develops a kenotic reduction that rehabilitates the Husserlian idea of “absolute science” while also disclosing the radical philosophical implications of Paul’s “new creation.

Phenomenologies of scripture

Adam Wells (ed)

Fordham University Press - New York City

2017

2 Publications