A while back I worked on singling out the idiom of God in our everyday language in terms of an irruptive and interruptive voice that takes us out of the scene we are in, places us on another scene, and is made to say the same thing on both scenes from within a third, meta, scene. So, you’re having a nice conversation with a couple of friends and one of them asks a question about something you’ve all avoided talking about for a while, like, say, a friend you’ve all broken with for reasons that have never been made explicit. Someone there is raising the question, but the question still comes from elsewhere, even for the person asking it, and it evokes questions of betrayal, resentment and cowardice that now find their echoes on other scenes; even if uttered differently on the other scenes, the word is the same as you work it over and try to integrate it in or display it against, the scene it interrupted. In this way we can think about God’s word as being within, alongside of, commenting on our own words, meaning it’s just a question of developing habits of inquiry and reflection, which are forms of deferral, to cancel out the noise and make it audible.
The Affordances of God, Continued
The Affordances of God, Continued
The Affordances of God, Continued
A while back I worked on singling out the idiom of God in our everyday language in terms of an irruptive and interruptive voice that takes us out of the scene we are in, places us on another scene, and is made to say the same thing on both scenes from within a third, meta, scene. So, you’re having a nice conversation with a couple of friends and one of them asks a question about something you’ve all avoided talking about for a while, like, say, a friend you’ve all broken with for reasons that have never been made explicit. Someone there is raising the question, but the question still comes from elsewhere, even for the person asking it, and it evokes questions of betrayal, resentment and cowardice that now find their echoes on other scenes; even if uttered differently on the other scenes, the word is the same as you work it over and try to integrate it in or display it against, the scene it interrupted. In this way we can think about God’s word as being within, alongside of, commenting on our own words, meaning it’s just a question of developing habits of inquiry and reflection, which are forms of deferral, to cancel out the noise and make it audible.