INTERVIEW WITH DR. BETTY PRIES

“Enfleshment” doesn’t seem nearly as holy sounding as “Incarnation.” Does that make it more helpful to understand the concept of incarnation? How about Pries’ phrase “Jesus is enfleshing God’s presence in the world?”
Do you think of yourself as being God’s presence in the world?
Are we God’s presence only as we do good things? Or are we also God’s presence when we cannot do much at all: when we are incapacitated by illness or age for example?
Pries lists “to care for the orphan, to give sight to the blind, to practice the year of Jubilee, to free the oppressed” as examples of incarnating God’s presence. How does that list fit together with Murray’s instruction to contextualize in our own culture?

Conduits of God's Presence