ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author focuses on bringing the various strands from the earlier chapters together, as she considers the possible ways in which the language of the soul might be woven into narrative practices. She relies on the notion of dialogue, and particularly Richard Kearney's concept of anatheism as a method of sacralizing the secular and secularizing the sacred as theists and atheists move beyond the dichotomy of before and after God. This approach fits well with the phenomenological approach presented in earlier chapters, where pre-conceived ideas are bracketed in order to engage in new experience. She concludes by considering the limitations of talk and the usefulness of incorporating silence and the body into narrative practices when considering integrating concepts related to the language of the soul.
