scandal of particularity

noun

Etymology

Calque of German Ärgernis der Einmaligkeit

Definitions

  1. The paradox inherent in the idea of a particular individual human (Jesus of Nazareth)…

    The paradox inherent in the idea of a particular individual human (Jesus of Nazareth) incarnating the eternal divine God.

    • 2006: Reformed theologians look to the scandal of particularity as a way of naming how the unknowable God is known to us. — Cynthia L Rigby, ‘Scandalous Presence’, Feminist and Womanist Essays in Reformed Dogmatics (John Knox 2006, p. 59)

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for scandal of particularity. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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