Luring the Divine

Ethnography has the potential to rupture and rearrange the types of robust theological imaginaries that the theological traditions produce, and it does so in ways that create space for us to lure God's own self‐revelation. Affect theory has been used by disciplines across the humanities, social sciences and even the so‐called “hard sciences.” Queer approaches to the relationship between affect and history provide a mechanism for time travel back and forth and through the Christian traditions to find the “undetonated energy from past revolutions. The chapter puts forth a methodological, even epistemological, claim about what affect and its ethnographic appearance might contribute to the production of theological knowledge. Normative theological claims are no longer the borders limiting the possible; they're the stepping‐stones allowing us to travel through and toward what's possible.