Apocalypticism negates this world in its fullness. It brackets the entire world negatively. […] The world is a totality which keeps itself distinct from the divine, forming an auto-nomy in relation to God. […] As the world does not contain its real source of power but is determined by an opposite pole, God is also held in tension at a distance from it. This relationship of tension is mutual and determines both poles. The world is that which stands in opposition to God [das Gegengöttliche], and God is that which stands in opposition to the world [das Gegenweltliche]. God in this world is alien and unknown. […] He is nonexistent [nicht-seiend] in the world. […] The “non-existent” God is an annihilating God [nichtender Gott] who clasps and destroys the world [die Welt umklammert und vernichtet]. The “nonexistent” God puts the being of the world in question by contesting the entire validity [Gültigkeit] and finality [Endgültigkeit] of what exists.

Jacob Taubes, Occidental Eschatology