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Immediately following, Bultmann speaks of God as "das Jenseits," or "das Jenseits der Welt," that we cannot talk about "as it is 'in itself;' because in doing so we would objectify das Jenseits, God, into einer diesseitig-weltlichen PhänamenPhänomen" (184 [99]).

Later in the essay, in discussing "talk about the act of God," Bultmann speaks of "the idea of der Unweltlichkeit, der Jenseitigkeit of divine action" being preserved "only if such action is represented not as something taking place between occurrences in the world but as something that takes place in them, in such a way that the closed continuum of worldly occurrences that presents itself to an objectifying view is left intact. God's act is hidden from all eyes other than the eyes of faith. The only thing that can be generally seen and established is the 'natural' occurrence. In it God's hidden act takes place" (196 f. [111]).

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