Jul 14
The uninterpretable tongues-speech is the Real (of the Spirit, the divine-human relation), which demands impossible commitment from Pentecostals. This Real resists their grasping or full understanding no matter how close the Pentecostals approach the Spirit. The tongues-speech is uttered with the full complement of the body and its senses, but it (or the Spirit) can never be “represented” in meaning. The Real transpires or shines through their reality or bodies, forever slipping through their fingers.
Nimi Wariboko, The Split God: Pentecostalism and Critical Theory
