Saturday, June 4, 2022

Reductio ad absurdum

"Chris Boesel describes the God who becomes involved in the messiness of human creation in the following way:  'The sphere in which God chooses to be God is not the "properly divine" sphere of the eternal darkness of unknowing, but the creaturely sphere of materiality and temporality wherein creatures see, hear, know, and live in a radically material and temporal way, within the finitude of particularity, for example, one by one, moment by moment, place by place' (Boesel 2010: 321).  No particular expression of that materiality can ever be ruled 'out of bounds' by this kind of God."

     John Blevins, "When sodomy leads to martyrdom:  sex, religion, and politics in historical and contemporary contexts in Uganda and East Africa," Theology and sexuality 17, no. 1 (2011):  69 (51-74), on the Feast of St. Charles Lwanga and Companions, Martyrs (3 June), italics mine.  Please note that I have not authenticated this photograph, taken from here.
     Although the second half of this article is impressive in the justice of its (even) self-awareness, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite is, I suspect, being misappropriated here in the service of a very different "kind of God."


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