Collins helps me connect real life to how inerrancy and infallibility actually work on real bodies. Activism and resistance are inherent to power relations, and both contemporary women and women within the biblical text must find connections of shared activism and resistance. Such a reading of texts, because it engages cultural issues, is counter to the readings that the doctrines of inerrancy and infallibility allow. Where do women have a modicum of power that we may exert in our reading of the biblical text? Further, since power is not something a group possesses but is, in fact, an
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