Definition of enflesh in English:
enflesh
verb ɛnˈflɛʃɪnˈflɛʃenˈfleSH
[with object]literary Give bodily form to; make real or concrete.
Example sentencesExamples
- That language is enfleshed in different ways in different contexts: in gospel music and chant, in oil for anointing and in silence, in chorales and hymns and dance.
- The story of God's love in Christ becomes the good news only as it is enfleshed in a particular culture; yet this gospel can never be identified with any one of its particular expressions, for it transcends them all.
- Preaching grace is enfleshed by words and pictures as diverse as the images of scripture.
- This represents the Ancestors, and when we activate the altar, part of it is to ‘breathe life’ into the ancestors, that we may enflesh their legacy.
- They then enflesh those insights by using three specific theologians as examples.
Derivatives
noun
literary To us, Canada's publicly funded health insurance plan is the enfleshment not only of Jesus’ healing ministry but also Catholic social teaching's commitment to the common good and the practice of solidarity.
Example sentencesExamples
- His birth was nothing less than the enfleshment of God the Son, in which the divine and human natures were united in the one person.
- Even according to classical dogmatic theology, Jesus Christ is the enfleshment in history of the Second Person of the Trinity.
- More important, even most important, I think, was the enfleshment of virtual friendships and virtual words.