![]() ![]() ![]() God created the world, it did not create him, etc. Implicit in a conventional, or at least Judaeo-Christian conventional, conception of "divine" is that it by definition refers to the most fundamental level of existence, from which everything else flowed/flows. So there's an orthodoxy, and the metaphor Barthes is drawing is to theology, which, at least by most conventional definitions, pre-supposes the existence of the divine (or else it cannot proceed). It's provisional, derived from a sort of extended metaphor, where Barthes is using theology as a stand-in for whatever kind of strongly orthodox perspective (the orthodox perspective being one you touched upon in another question, wherein "The author still rules in manuals of literary history"). The fact that both "theological" and "message" (of the Author-God) are in quotes may be a clue about the context of the former here. ![]()
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