Spurious

Rob McInroy reviews Wittgenstein Jr at his blog. 

Perhaps the time has come when theology must learn to live without the support of canon and classical authorities and stand in the world without authority. Without authority, however, theology can only teach by an indirect method. Theology is indeed in a strange position because it has to prove its purity by immersing itself in all the layers of human existence and cannot claim for itself a special realm . . . Theology must remain incognito
in the realm of the secular and work for the sanctification of the world.

Jacob Taubes, 'On the Nature of the Theological Method' (1954), From Cult to Culture: Fragments towards a Critique of Historical Reason

It was not until Christ had known the physical agony of crucifixion, the shame of blows and mockery, that he uttered his immortal  cry, a question which shall remain unanswered through all times on this earth. ‘My God, why has thou forsaken me?’ when poetry struggles towards the expressing of pain and misery, it can be great poetry only if that cry sounds through every word.

Simone Weil

The figure of the crucified Jesus abandoned by God and dying without hope of resurrection, does not, however, yield the image of man’s tragic complaint against a deaf sky … It’s image is not the hero fighting against great odds and defeated in the end, but in the masses of helpless victims subjected to meaninglessness, waste and torture, defeated from the beginning …

It was surely a profound experience of the pits of unredeemed humanity suffering in the contemporary world, combined with a pitiless realism regarding the effects of affliction on men’s souls that led Simone Weil to realise that any attempt to resurrect the dead God is doomed to remain romantic rhetoric … A God who does not exist, who emptied himself into the world, transformed his substance in the blind mechanism of the world, a God who dies in the inconsolable pits of human affliction.

Jacob Taubes