By 'a/theism' I am referring, not to an intellectual disavowal of God, but to the felt experience of God’s absence; an experience that must be distinguished from the idea of a mere absence of experience. To understand the difference take a moment to think about the difference between the absence that exists before you meet someone you later come to love and the absence you experience once they are gone. In both cases the person is absent, but the first is a mere absence of experience while the second is an experience of absence. ...If the Crucifixion and Resurrection open up a/theism through the loss of all ground (Crucifixion) and the embrace of existence in the aftermath of this event (Resurrection) then the re-embrace of theism would be a retrograde step. One that would take us away from this profoundly liberating, life affirming and transformative event.
PETER ROLLINS
