Madison Mcclendon

“Critique is another strategy for responding to patriarchal texts and artifacts, one that is also fitting and can also be theologically narrated. Like attunement, it is a way of responding to sin and to the type of creatures we are: creatures that grow. Critique claims a distance that can be salutary for navigating states we are leaving behind, either because they are corrupt or because they no longer fit who we are or are becoming. But we cannot live by critique alone. Excluding strategies of attunement or claiming a methodology of sola critica denies something of our creatureliness, the ways we have been mothered into this world and its traditions by forces that continue to sustain us, even as such sustenance can be laced with poisons, even as our mothers wound us.”
― Natalie Carnes, Attunement: The Art and Politics of Feminist Theology