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His implied capture and migration north may be linked paradigmatically to the narrative of John Marrant, a so-called Enlightenment pioneer of the Black Atlantic (pace Gates and Andrews), although to speak literally, his travels on the "American seas" (79) occur extremely late in his narrative and are of peripheral importance to the main adventures of (land-locked) Christian conversion and Indian captivity. The entire biblical conception of revelation is based on the revelatory capacity of creation, for in creating the earth God shows that spirit is paradigmatically expressed through matter. The belief that God "has acted climactically, and not merely paradigmatically, in Jesus of Nazareth" "will drive the Christian to history, as a hypothesis drives the scientist to the modifications and adaptations necessary if the hypothesis is to stand the test of reality" (Wright 1992: 136). |
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