I was recently watching the 1973 Hanna-Barbera cartoon version of E.B. White's Charlotte’s Web and was struck by it's illustration of how words effect the world. Charlotte writes the words "some pig" above an "average everyday" pig. By virtue of Charlotte’s words people begin to look deeper into the kind of pig Wilbur is. In a similar vain I love the way Christ speaks over us. He takes us from amidst the masses and speaks over us and calls us God's children (his banner over us is love). Poythress is right. We cannot escape a world constructed through language because our world was constructed through language. We can only seek to speak in line with the one who spoke it into being.
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