Far from being a full-scale retreat into the safety of agnosticism, “God, perhaps” names a new theology with the courage of an eerie non-conviction, that calls for a new species of theologians, for venturers upon the turbulent seas of a perilous “perhaps,” equipped only with the thinnest of protection, like a sheep amid wolves, theologians of risk, whose subject matter is the irreducible danger of life. This is all contracted in the small word “perhaps,” which inspires fear even among sovereigns, for fear that the being of God lies in may-being.29
