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Abram becomes Abraham, Jacob becomes Israel, and Saul becomes Paul. The God of Abraham is and is not the God of Israel, and the God of Israel is and is not that of Paul.
Wording the world out,
the Word is worlded
And worded is the body
that bodies forth the Word
And the word becomes flesh
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Vahanian, G. (2014). God and the Fallacy of Identity: A Theological Disintoxication of the West. In: Theopoetics of the Word. Radical Theologies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137440631_4
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