Word and Fire Instead of Sound and Smoke. Why an Abstract „God“ Is not to be Believed: „The memory of suffering leads into the liturgical memory of names, which takes into prayer the mystery of salvation of Jesus Christ before YHWH: Name to Name rather than Dust to Dust. Should God-thinking (or God-not-thinking) have the last word among us humans, anonymous grave fields in cemeteries would be the foretaste of eternity.“

Word and Fire Instead of Sound and Smoke. Why an Abstract „God“ Is not to be Believed By Jochen Teuffel … Mehr

Kornelis H. Miskotte on the unutterable NAME in his „When the Gods are silent“: „The meaning and purpose of the Old Testament is this: to verify with all the means of language the confession ‚YHWH is the Godhead‘ is ‚irreversible.‘ From the time of the Apologists the church, and from the time of Philo and later of Maimonides the synagogue, have been pursuing the path of reversibility.“

It was Kornelis Heiko Miskotte, who introduced the importance of the NAME for Christian Theology: The Unutterable Name By Kornelis … Mehr

The following text is the revision of my farewell lecture at Lutheran Theological Seminary in Hong Kong delivered in September … Mehr