Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 03:17:05 -0700 (MST)
From: LEO MEEKS <lmeeks-AT-du.edu>
Subject: rending time


Nathan,

i think there is something to your reference to the untimely in 
nietzsche, though it seems that for nietzsche the death of god is an 
'event' an happening or occurence. my suggestion is that the untimeliness 
of the death of god -- and here i would reference the work of Paul, 
Luther, and heidegger -- breaks open time. the death of god on the cross 
is not absense, loss, negation, void, or whatever but a productivity. the 
death of god is the emergence of the church, here there is literally one 
body, the body of christ. and it comes as a thief in the night.

-leo


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