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Eyes wide open, seeing nothingThe challenge of the Gospel of John s non-vizualizable texture for readings using visual textureL. Gregory BloomquistSaint Paul UniversityFaculty of TheologyIntroductionI d like you to visualize God. If you are able to do so, your visualization of God is probably drawn from images that you have seen of God. These images themselves are drawn from various sources: stained glass windows, statuary, children s Bibles, shrines, stories that you have heard. You may imagine a patriarchal style God with long beard, a multi-armed God fighting with a sword in each of many hands, a triangle with an eye, etc. The task I assigned you is probably much harder if you are Jewish or Muslim, but it is not impossible.

Well, perhaps darkness is the one thing that you can visualize because when you close your eyes, you see nothing, not even “light”. It is the absence of everything that can be visualized and strikingly,

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