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“In the beginning was the Word,” the Christian apostle John said, “and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (1:1). Indeed, many religious faiths tell of deities speaking the world into existence, of gods-as-authors, and even those faiths that do not still only come into power and relevance as a way of understanding the human condition through storytelling of some sort.
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Owen, D.P. (2011). The Word is Dead; Long Live the Word. In: Owen, D.P. (eds) The Need for Revision. Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education, vol 77. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-660-1_10
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