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Although Breton barely mentions the term 'metanoia,' it well describes the radical change that takes place for anyone who adopts the logic of the cross. In effect, that logic results in a self that is radically de-centered. Moreover, to embrace that logic is to give up the demand for both reasons and signs. Arguing for a radical conception of kenosis, Breton insists that it is a true emptying that remains powerless and senseless in light of any worldly logos and, as such, can only appear to be folly. Thus, the fool for Christ is truly a fool.

A veteran of two pilgrimages on the ancient Camino de Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain, Kim Andresen began painting crosses after her first trip. This mostly abstract image evokes [...]