Cicero always called herself a theologian. Even a Gnostic theologian. With Benjamin bells on.
She used to insist that we were theologians, too. Even the greatest theologians.
The best theologians don’t know that they’re theologians, Cicero used to say. Theology must be a secret. Even from its greatest practitioners.
God is dead, Helmut says. And this means everything except ‘there is no God.
Who said that? Let me guess. Nazi. Small moustache. Wrote a lot of books about being.
The death of God must be the first principle of a new theology, according to Cicero, I say.
Theology must descend into hell and stay there, Io whispers. The passage through death is … necessary. That’s what the Christian apocalyptic consciousness understands.
The full reality of the world – that’s what has to be faced in theology, Cicero said. All the darkness and evil. No longer escapism or wishful illusion. Theology must know history as horror.
Work in Progress 