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Post-Shoah Political Theology

Early in the development of Western religion, in the writings of Marcion and others, it seemed jarring that the Creator God, who fashioned what turned out to be a defective and faulty universe, should also be the author of redemption.¹ Unlike negative theology, Gnosticism seeks to resolve the tension between the religion's creative and redemptive moments by assigning each vocations to different gods, thereby irrevocably breaching the absolute distance negative theology posits between God and man. Gnosticism thus originates as a remodeling of God to make Him answerable to a human intellectual need (of reconciling His power with His goodness)....