Christianity is Not an Idea, part 1: God as an event

Chris Nye
6 min readAug 30, 2019
Icon of the Burning Bush (St. Catherine’s Monastery, Egypt)

“God saw the people of Israel — and God knew.” - Exodus 2:25

“What is there, then in Christ Jesus? There is that which horrifies: the dissolution of history in history, the destruction of the structure of events within their known structure, the end of time in the order of time.” - Karl Barth, The Epistle to the Romans, pg. 103 (on Romans 3:24)

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Chris Nye

Living in Portland, Oregon with my wife and son. Doctoral candidate at Duke University. Author of a few books: chrisnye.co/books