made flesh
Given physical form
Made flesh means given physical or bodily form, especially something abstract or spiritual becoming incarnate.
The phrase comes from the Gospel of John describing the Word (divine logos) becoming human in Jesus Christ.
It now applies broadly to abstractions made tangible or real: Her paintings are imagination made flesh.
The building is modernism made flesh.
- materializationComing into tangible existence
- incarnationQuality given bodily presence
- Son of GodChrist's divine designation
- Emmanuel"God is with us"
- God incarnateDeity in human form
embodiment · hypostasis · Christology · divinity · divine nature · Trinity · corporeal · mortal body · human form · immanence · redemption · personification · transubstantiation · manifestation · begotten · word · transcendence · theophany
made fleshdisembodied
Without a physical body
incorporeal · transcendent · immaterial · ethereal · otherworldly
made fleshunrealized
Not made actual
theoretical · conceptual · platonic · unmanifested · abstract
made fleshdematerialized
Ceased to exist physically
discarnate · sublimated · vaporized · dissolved · ascended