By Patricia Dailey
Patricia Dailey is an affiliate professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia college.
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39 At its highest moments, the affectus slices through the unstable and changeable temporal worlds to exercise eternal effects on the outer and to enable one to read the outer according to the spirit. Using language that will be echoed in Hadewijch’s Liederen, William notes that “the affectus of charity adheres in judgments according to the light of His countenance, so that she [the soul] may act or perform exteriorly what the good and pleasing will of God speaks inwardly to her. ”40 William provides one means for reading the book of life (liber vitae) via the instrumentality of charity and its effect on the soul.
This deactivation of the outer body, depriving it of its independent agency that inclines toward sin in favor of a dependency on the divine, is signaled by a shift in Paul from the language of captivity into a language of hospitality and adoption. The crucified outer person is equated with dying with Christ, as well as living with him (in the future tense) by belief and faith, not by identification with the materiality of the outer: “If now we die with Christ we believe [pisteuomen] that we will also live with [suzēsomen] him” (Rom 6:8), and “Always bearing about in the body [sōmati] the dying of the Lord Jesus so that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest [phanerōthē] in our body [sōrnati].
I also want to recognize the untraceable labor of a group of women without whom this book would not have emerged from its promised state: Regina Antwi, Silvia Gutierrez, Susana Macias, Rosita Monzon, Maria Triminius, and Joanne Trapp. Finally, I would like to recognize the late Jean-François Lyotard—who knew well before I did, in 1991, what the seed of this book was—for teaching me of the responsibility associated with writing; and the late Jacques Derrida, who drove me to reiterate this in my own way.