God’s Apocalyptic Powerlessness

Sergio Quinzio and “End-Times Christianity”

Abstract

The article presents the core of the reflection of Sergio Quinzio: the powerlessness of God and the Apocalypse. In the first part, we have pointed out the reasons that led Quinzio to talk about a God without potency. He affirms that the Bible is a tale of a progressive abdication of the potency of Good, which starts from the creation, in which God retires from the world in order to create a space for the creature; and finishes with the incarnations of the Son and his death on the Cross. Due to this impotence, God has to invoke the apocalypse because only in this way would he save not only men from the death, but also Himself from His weakness. In the second part, we provide Quinzio’s interpretation of Apocalypse. He thinks that it is impotency itself because God can save the world and the human being only by destroying the world. The «Rest of Israel», which will be preserved from the final destruction, will only be saved «just as the shepherd snatches from the lion’s mouth» (Am 3:12).