'Using Kierkegaard in the process, and installing themselves in this arc between "the moment and eternity"; no longer just with "dialectical theology" and its tension between moment and eternity, but with so-called present 'eschatology'. This being so, revelation is taken all the more as awakening self-knowledge in its proper form, rather than as concealing within its covers some great goal of history and of the world; though qua Kierkegaard, it is true, this does take place in the topos, even if not in the darkness and unconstruable question of the Moment. Which, as such, precisely because of its utter closeness, its most immanent immanence, appears to be more than just human; and is in fact the Immediate in all its driving force, the Immediate which is not yet even mediated to itself, and which exists in everything. This unpassed Moment, beneath all else, contains in fact the secret of existence - or, rather, is that secret plain and simple. And for that reason its Hic et nunc is not only formative of individual Christians, but remains intact and undissipated in all existing being.'
Ernst Bloch - Chapter 11: Discernment of Myths in Atheism in Christianity
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