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Writing‐Terrors: A Dialectical Lyric
Author(s) -
Jordan Mark D.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
modern theology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.144
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1468-0025
pISSN - 0266-7177
DOI - 10.1111/moth.12123
Subject(s) - praise , dialectic , narrative , philosophy , literature , embodied cognition , aesthetics , epistemology , art
Abstract Writers of theology do not need handbooks of method so much as examples of how to praise G od without praising the human powers that claim divine authority for inflicting their terrors. The essay by M ayra R ivera in P olydoxy provides such an example when it joins the precepts of “decolonial” thinking to the lure of embodied narrative. Her example can be doubled by turning to Foucault's practice of the writing of bodies, powers, and divinities.