God and the Nuclear Catastrophe

Abstract

There is no apocalyptical meaning of the nuclear world annihilation, but only the protest of apocalyptic hope in God against all powers which make that world annihilation possible. God's stories in the Bible speak and awaken hope where otherwise there is nothing else to hope. The memories of being rescued from disaster do not deny the disaster. They speak of the God who made the hopeless disaster of his people his own and who led his people out of it. The Christian memory represents the suffering and dying of Christ in the abandonment of God and, through the anticipation of his resurrection from the dead, awakens hope for the victory of life over death.