of escape from the burden of God. Those so fascinated can become enticed by a living negation, a mystical way of self-denial by which one becomes something of an abstraction oneself. Piety becomes almost a holy suicide. Thus even in this there is no escape from the wrath of God. God not preached remains an intractable problem for us. God not preached is the absconder, one who hides behind the naked abstractions, and there is nothing theology as such can do about that because theology