Vorster, J.N.2009-09-142009-09-142001Vorster, JN 2001, ''n Politieke tegnologie van die vroee Christen se gepynigde liggaam', Verbum et Ecclesia, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 434-454. [http://www.journals.co.za/ej/ejour_verbum.html]1609-9982http://hdl.handle.net/2263/11236The early Christian martyr is usually only seen in terms of testimony or witness. It is argued that a political technology of the body enables us to see the manner in which the pained body of the early Christian martyr functioned as a space upon which political strategies for the empowerment of interested parties were enacted.AfrikaansFaculty of Theology, University of PretoriaPolitical technologyPained bodyPolitical empowermentMartyrdom -- ChristianityMartyrsArticle