Michel Henry, Reader of the Fathers of the Church

The present article takes up Michel Henry's Incarnation as a witness to a contemporary philosophical reading of the "Fathers of the Church". First to be analyzed is the author's manner of constructing the relations between Christians and Hellenism by engaging in a creative reading of Paul's discourse at the Areopagus in order to employ it as a matrix. Next to be discussed is Henry's interpretation of the "consensus of the Fathers" as the ideal sequence of the combat for the reality of the Incarnation. Finally placed in evidence is the use of philosophical exegesis for the appropriation of the thought of Ireneus, Tertullian and Augustine, as well as the New Testament itself.