ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces the systematic character of apophatic theology according to the development of the interrelated premises. God is always a mystery. He declares his natural hiddenness in a manner with which he renders it more mysterious in revelation. The fact of revelation dissolves the solitude of the world. The cosmology of Plato's Timaeus is based on a series of relationships between necessity (ananke) and reason, the demiurge and the physical or material order that is the substance of the world. Criticisms of godless modernity evoke the nihilism of the modern world in terms of the nothingness to which the world has been reduced. The postlapsarian conception of the freedom of the human is extinguished by an absolute clarity of ethics, of a freedom against the fallen world, but also at once a freedom 'for', which is the soteriological transformation of the cosmos.
