RT Article T1 'n Politieke tegnologie van die vroeê Christen se gepynigde liggaam JF Verbum et ecclesia VO 22 IS 2 SP 434 OP 454 A1 Vorster, Johannes N. LA Afrikaans YR 2001 UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1923028340 AB The 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. DO 10.4102/ve.v22i2.664