ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how one may manage to live sacramentally in the horizon on the strength of the mood of faith, as a possibility among possibilities of “life in the world.” Sacramental worldhood holds both immanence and transcendence in difficult but necessary tension. The sacramental horizon of the world opens the field of worldhood as a field of possibilities. As fundamentally suspended among possibilities, sacramental worldhood opens the door to theological evidence and ultimately to forms of transcendence that are latent as possibilities to be realized. In order to celebrate creation, and as a corollary, to combat Gnostic renunciation of the world, the chapter sketches the possibility of sacramental vision applied to the world. Christianity is surpassed, insofar as it is incapable of furnishing a large-scale meaning-scheme; it relinquished its function as the “common reference point” and “explicit regulative index” of Western worldhood, of discourse itself.
