Further thinking and discernment of what is, in itself, utterly clear and presently demanded may only be perverse delay; performance of a deed not identical to that commanded may only be culpable disobedience. The result is that human faculties of agency such as critical thinking and discernment, or creativity and imagination, the possibility of ‘faithful questioning’, as well as considerations of performance—the best way to enact or embody what has been commanded—are excluded, as if these forms