Katherine Sonderegger is right when she says:
It is a wonder that Moses is not annihilated—consumed—by the Name uttered to him in the wilderness. For all the other apocalypses in Holy Scripture can only pale before this Naming, the annihilating Speech of God as Subject. This is the end, the finality of all creatures, of all reality.” (Katherine Sonderegger, Systematic Theology, Vol. 1: The Doctrine of God, 222)
The whole thing should have ended right there at the burning bush—
Moses face-to-face with this lethal revelation of the Divine Presence.
And yet it didn’t. It doesn’t.
Each moment, each atom,
does not explode the universe
despite its unlimited power.
Here be dragons. Here be angels.
Here be the End of All Desires and the Furnace Forging New Ones.
Who needs a trajectory toward apocalyptic catastrophe?
Suns melt every day.
Moons turn to blood.
Stars come crashing down out of the firmament.
And we blithely go on,
unheeding,
unmoved.
–Alex Joyner
Heartlands 