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On Transfiguration
- L'Esprit Créateur
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 53, Number 1, Spring 2013
- pp. 158-166
- 10.1353/esp.2013.0002
- Article
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This essay makes a case for the transfiguration of Jesus as a template for other transfigured and transfiguring bodies, including those of transgender persons. Transfiguration names the becoming apparent of an embodied mystery that challenges our everyday distinctions between being and becoming; in the process, it makes language strange.