[PHILOS-L] A Philosophy of Religion Scholarly Lecture Series - Michael Omoge

[Aribiah Attoe]

A Philosophy of Religion Scholarly  Lecture Series

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Topic: Beyond Deep Incarnation: Soteriological Form, Dialogical Necessity, and the Cosmic Logos-Event

   

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Michael Omoge (University of Alberta, Canada)   

   

Wednesday, March 25^th, 2026   

18.30 – 19.30 GMT   

ZOOM Link: https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86220828193   

     

     

Abstract   

Niels Henrik Gregersen’s deep incarnation program corrects the ontological geocentricity error in classical Christology: the Logos assumed rational creaturely nature as such, not human nature specifically. This paper argues the correction is incomplete. The soteriological form of the Logosevent — cross, resurrection, sacrifice — retains its Earth-local contingency while functioning as a universal template. This is the geocentricity error one level down. Correcting it requires identifying what any Logos-event must accomplish independent of local form. I argue that the answer follows from Trinitarian structure: incarnation is constitutively dialogical. A God whose inner life is mutual self-giving cannot relate to intelligent creatures through presence producing no creaturely awareness without ceasing to be Trinitarian. Cross and resurrection are the form this mutual knowing takes when creaturely fallenness is biological, mortal, and historically particular — real and sufficient for Earth, not diminished by being local. This dialogical necessity argument grounds a three-tier cosmology of divine presence distinguished by dialogical capacity rather than biology, separates salvation from eschatology on principled grounds, and identifies the universal invariant of any Logosevent while leaving its local soteriological form open. The result completes the geocentricity correction at both levels.

 

      

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Aribiah David Attoe, PhD

ORCID No.: 0000-0001-9786-1824

Department of Philosophy

University of Witwatersrand, South Africa

Member, The Conversational School of Philosophy, Calabar, Nigeria

Co-author: New Conversations on the Problem of Identity, Consciousness and Mind (Springer, 2019)

Guest Editor: "Special Issue on African Conceptions of the Meaning of Life", South African Journal of Philosophy (2020)

Author: Groundwork for a New Kind of African Metaphysics: The Idea of Predeterministic Historicity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Co-recipient: John Templeton Fund, via the Global Philosophy of Religion Project Grant, University of Birmingham.

IEP Entry: https://iep.utm.edu/afr-mean/

Co-Guest Editor: Special Issue on "Shifting Perspectives on Contemporary African Philosophy of Religion", Religious Studies (2022).

Co-Guest Editor: Special Issue on "African Perspectives on God, the Problem of Evil and Meaning in Life", Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religion (2022).

Editor: African Perspectives on the Question of Life's Meaning (Routledge, 2023)
Co-editor: Conversations on African Philosophy of Mind, Consciousness and Artificial Intelligence (Springer)

Author: The Question of Life's Meaning: An African Perspective (Palgrave)

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