Creature Politics Notes 13

A Translation of Romans 12:1—5

Dear All, these are some notes for the Creature Politics course on Paul’s letter to the Romans. I thought I would share with all, with brief notes and comments below the paywall.

I've wanted for a long time to do a Whitman-esque translation/paraphrase of Romans Chapter 12. I've indulged myself on the first five verses.

1. Relatives

This is a call

From the deep feeling of God

To be present 

To be embodied

As the dead ones who live

In Otherness

To God’s own rejoicing

This is the work of the people

2. Who're unconformed to the pattern of the present age

Transfigured

Made new from the mind outward

Test this wish of God

It is good

It is joyous

It is whole

3. I'll speak

Out of the kindness I've known

Everyone among you

Don't inflate your thinking

Over the thinking that fits the whole

Think steady

Like a breathing body

Because goodfaith is shared by God

Among all our relations

4. For so it is

As one creature, embodied

We are a multitude of members

And each member acts

Not enclosed in themselves

But for the multitude

5. In the messianic body

We are, each of us

Members of one another