Verbum et Ecclesia (Aug 2001)

'n Politieke tegnologie van die vroeê Christen se gepynigde liggaam

  • J.N. Vorster

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4102/ve.v22i2.664
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 22, no. 2
pp. 434 – 454

Abstract

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The early Christian martyr is usually only seen in terms of testimony or witness. It is argued that a political technology of the body enables us to see the manner in which the pained body of the early Christian martyr functioned as a space upon which political strategies for the empowerment of interested parties were enacted.