We started every mass in my little Nebraska hometown by reciting it together: “Light from light, true God from true God, one in being with the Father.” I realize today that this particular incarnational theology (the creedal lines refer to the doubled human and divine natures of Christ) has informed nearly everything that I think. My present writing, for example, on the superhumanities—that is, the academic humanities as already encoded with the “super” experiences of their historical authors (precognitive dream, evolving superhumans, and doubled selves)—is clearly indebted to that same
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