ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book describes the capacity for devout contemplation through literature in the face of evil and the impossibility of theology. It focuses on Werner G. Jeanrond what he called the 'hermeneutical imperative,' while the author, read poems and novels and went to the theatre to keep himself sane. The book explores the profound sense of the suffering endured by the twentieth century, and of the dislocation with the theology that had gone before, to be drowned first in the blood-bath of the First World War. It points out that by seeking for a conceptual framework for theology in the form of critical and cultural theory that has actually already abandoned, in the main, theological thinking is doomed from the start, for theology can only be formed within the terms of theological thinking.
