The Possible as a Gift

A quote from Eberhard Jüngel's essay "The world as possibility and actuality. The ontology of the doctrine of justification.", Theological Essays, Vol. I" (thanks to without authority). The article of which it forms a part was somewhat hard for me to get and what it implies needs to be worked out. It talks about the reversal of the commensensical notion (via Socrates) that actuality has a greater priority than possiblity.

"The gospel proclaims that the risen one lives as the crucified. And in this the death of Jesus comes to have its real meaning, namely, as the event of the love of God (Jn 3.16). Jesus' resurrection from the dead promises that we shall be made anew out of the nothingness of relationlessness, remade ex nihilo, if through faith in the creative Word of God we allow ourselves to participate in the love of God which occurs as the death of Jesus Christ. In this sense, Christian existence is existence out of nothingness, because it is all along the line existence out of the creative power of God who justifies."