of us must either face our finitude authentically or live inauthentically. It is possible to live inauthentically in the very name of Christianity, objectifying the gospel into historical events in which supernatural beings from above and below enter into our world. But there is no more room in history than there is in nature for such an entrance. Newtonian “gaps,” so to speak, do not appear in history any more than they do in physical nature. Supernatural beings and actions cannot be slipped into