The Unnameable Holy: a review

[Resin by Geri Doran reviewed by Remy Wilkins]

Faith is unilaterally said to be a comfort; submission is thought to be the fruit of oppression. Faith has become an act of the torpid, it is common to hear “I take it on faith” to mean -and perhaps has always meant- “I take it without consideration”, whereas submission has been relegated to a barbaric age of oppression, but what Geri Doran has done, and that rather courageously, is to return us to the wild faith of the primeval era, to the radical nature of submission, and to remind us of the true dread of religion. The fainthearted have already logged their complaints about this book and its tendency to “God-talk”, but the mistake comes in thinking that faith is purely the act of the weak willed, those at wit’s end, when true faith is dangerous and true gods undomesticated.