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  • verb transitive To strip of physical form.

Etymologies

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de- +‎ physicalize

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Examples

  • The reality and power of Christ’s sacrificial language is equally missed by those who obsess about transubstantiation, ripping the Real Presence from its total network of relations, including the temporal play between anamnesis and eschatological expectation, and those who dephysicalize it to the point of making Christian assembly a mere meeting of minds and hearts rather than incorporation into the Body of Christ.

    Archive 2008-02-01 enowning 2008

  • The reality and power of Christ’s sacrificial language is equally missed by those who obsess about transubstantiation, ripping the Real Presence from its total network of relations, including the temporal play between anamnesis and eschatological expectation, and those who dephysicalize it to the point of making Christian assembly a mere meeting of minds and hearts rather than incorporation into the Body of Christ.

    enowning enowning 2008

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