Abstract
God as the Mystery of the World is an extraordinary work. It is deeply provocative. Jüngel’s learning is on full display. Jüngel’s most important contribution to the doctrine of God shows not only his formidable intellect but also something of his apologetic heart. Jüngel earnestly desires his readers to know what kind of God they encounter in the crucified Christ. In this chapter, I focus on Jüngel’s account of God, what Jüngel thinks the biblical text compels us to say with respect to God. In so doing, I provide something of a bird’s-eye view. I have many reservations about Jüngel’s account, more and more as the years go by. And yet, there is much to learn from his thinking even though one must, I think, depart from it at key junctures. In this chapter, I think with Jüngel via Erich Przywara about the relationship between God and the world, and particularly about the function of analogy in describing that relationship. I consider how analogy helps us to describe that relationship.