Immortalized on celluloid by Audrey Hepburn in the 1961 movie, Miss Golightly will assume flesh at the Cort Theater, where Richard Greenberg's stage adaptation, directed by Sean Mathias, opens on March 20.
All matter was redeemed by immersion in the fluids of the womb where Jesus assumed the flesh.
What they find awesome is not that God should have assumed human flesh but that humanity should have been available for God to take.
The Gnostics held a Docetist Christology, in which Jesus only appeared to assume the flesh.
They taught, among other things, that the material world was created by the Devil, that Christ did not assume the flesh but only appeared to, and that the church and its sacraments were the Devil's work.
Although the Cathari maintained that they alone were true Christians, their leaders, the "perfects," overtly denied many traditional Christian doctrines, such as the Incarnation of Christ (they taught a Docetist Christology, which maintained that Christ only appeared to assume the flesh).
Drawing on the 15th chapter of the Apostle Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians, the archbishop wrote, "The flesh he assumed in the incarnation, although sinless, was like our own, susceptible to death; the flesh that he raised in his three-day resurrection is splendid and powerful, for he graced the perishable with imperishability and the corruptible with incorruption".
Santa Rosa's Coffey Park neighborhood was largely deserted, though the stench of what one assumed to be rotting flesh was overwhelming at least 19 deaths had been confirmed in the city as of this past Friday.
Incarnation, central Christian doctrine that God became flesh, that God assumed a human nature and became a man in the form of Jesus Christ, the Son of God and the second person of the Trinity.
Summarized by the painstaking current chief curator of painting and sculpture, John Elderfield, the distilled decisions of generations of thinkers and connoisseurs assume confident, full flesh.
And as she lifted the hem of her ever so short shorts for me to investigate what I assumed would have to be an atrocity of puckered flesh, all I saw was a pole-dancer-ready leg and butt cheek.
