Offers a new phenomenological method for biblical interpretation that opens up the possibility of an absolute science of scripture.What is scripture and how does it function Is there a scientific way to understand its meaning In answer Adam Wells proposes a phenomenological approach to scripture that radicalizes both phenomenology and its relation to Christianity. By reading the kenosis hymn Philippians 2511 alongside the work of Edmund Husserl Wells develops a kenotic reduction that rehabilitates the Husserlian idea of absolute science while also disclosing the radical philosophical implications of Pauls new creation. More broadly The Manifest and the Revealed pushes the fields of phenomenology and biblical studies forward.