The Carnal Weight of Eternity

Abstract

The rational and spiritual instance of critical confrontation with the creeds historically handed down is combined in the work of J.T. Mendonça, profoundly Christian but not confessionally identifiable as a religious poet, with a poetic word that rises like a prophetic force against the epistemic and social idolatries that enslave our time. The article analyzes the image of God in Mendonça’s verses, where he does not appear as a vision, but rather as a “ashen voice”, a fire that burns away lies and leads us to the vulnerable nakedness of truth.