ABSTRACT
Engaging the convening question of the Body of Christ as cosmic figure, this meditation troubles the boundary between its universality and its universe. As the human home in the cosmos now shudders with ecological precarity, the solidarity of all bodies demands of Christians Christological attention. If a political theology of the earth discerns the social and ecological intensities of our bodily interdependence, so also it twists from conventions of Christian exceptionalism toward an earth-scaled intersectionalism. How do these entangled relations unfold the ancient Pauline metaphor of the collective body within a charged contemporary context of multilayered creaturely interdependency? In the interest of a theological language broader in its universals than any bounded religion, and far livelier in its universe than any secular reduction, might we experiment with the discourse of a spirited “intercarnation”?
