My faith is faith in faith itself—it's faith all the way down, and there is no bottom—which is what is involved in having faith in the event. Insistence is a pure trembling, a specter, almost nothing, like a spirit. There's no one out there, no hyper-entity, to ensure it will all turn out well in the end. According to my hermeneutic principle—which is never to avoid the difficulty in life34—the event that is going on in theology only emerges once we set loose this dangerous and problematic “perhaps,” which sets loose the trouble with God, the auto-problematizing character of God,
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