Is our ambivalence concerning the Incarnation a flight from our own need, dependency, and vulnerability? Our discussions over the last few chapters seem to answer in the affirmative. Our utter dependency is nowhere more manifest than in our vulnerability to death. In fact, death is what defines human need. The forces of death are always at work in my body. And to fend off death, I must eat and excrete. I am always moving into hunger, always in need. And if I eat, I must defecate and urinate. The whole metabolic cycle is driven by the forces of death and decay and my daily efforts to fend them
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