The topology of texts and destruction of metaphysics -- History, hermeneutics, and political theology -- Philosophy: the grammar of destruction -- Topology -- Sola Scriptura -- The quest for immorality -- The quest for destruction -- The quest for clarity -- The quest for sovereignty -- The quest for subjectivity -- The hidden God -- Deus Absconditus -- Modernity in the making -- Topology of the self in Luther -- Kant versus Luther on self-consciousness -- Spacing the hidden God: the temporal/spatial divide -- From revelation to revolution -- The power of interpretation: controversies on the book of Daniel -- Political theology of the German revolutions -- The hidden God of revolution and Apocalypse