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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. You might envision a fire, or an opening in the clouds. Or, you might be able to visualize the name of God written in calligraphic letters. But the aniconism of both religions probably leaves you unable to undertake the task.

Analysis of this force leads us to the third arena identified by Robbins, ideological texture, though again I have used the name for this arena somewhat differently from Robbins.8 For my purposes, ideological texture is manifest in the rhetorical goal that seeks to get an audience, real or fictive, to do or understand something.

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