In Dialogue With Hans Blumenberg's Account Of Modernity, Christianity, And Gnosticism, This Chapter Traces The Contours Of The Christian-modern World In Schelling As A Structure Of Alienation And The Not-yet. The Chapter Reconstructs The Tension Between Theodicy And Bliss In Schelling's Genealogy Of Modernity, As Well As Analyzes The Place Of Mysticism In This Genealogy And Highlights His Romantic Proclamation Of The Coming Epoch Of Magic, Bliss, And What William Wordsworth Calls The One Life. In The Schellingian Framework, Christianity And Modernity Remain Co-imbricated In And As The Hegemonic Christian-modern World, And Modernity Appears As A Failed Salvific Epoch That Inherits The Christian Promise Of A Blissful Future. What The Chapter Terms The General Christian Contradiction As The Structure Of Universal Diremption Forms The Basis Of Schelling's View Of The World As A Whole And Provides The Context In Which His Thought Is Placed In The Rest Of The Book-- General Introduction: Modernity, Theodicy, Bliss -- Schelling's Plenum Of Bliss -- The Genealogical Question -- A Scene Of Bliss: Rousseau And Adorno -- The Fall From Bliss (into The World): Kant -- Modernity And Theodicy -- Why Must This World Be? -- The General Christian Contradiction -- Separation And Delegitimation -- Faith And The Not-yet Of The World -- The Epoch Of Crisis: Modernity And Alienation -- With And Against The Christian-modern -- Mysticism, Magic, And The Signs Of The Times (with An Excursus On Wordsworth) -- Interlude I: Ordo Quis Datus? -- The Demiurgic Subject -- To Break All Finite Spheres: In Search Of Lost Bliss -- To Reproduce The World: Idealism As The Katechon -- Interlude Ii: Abyss Of Repose And Inactivity -- Evil Is But A Shadow -- The One Common Being: Re-visioning The Universe As Bliss -- To Dissolve As In Water, To Consume As In Fire -- Everything In Its Place And Time: An Aesthetic Cosmic Theodicy -- The Dark Ground -- Introduction To Part Ii: On Schelling's Post-1809 System Narrative -- Universal Ekstasis Or, Fallenness And Method -- Decentering: The Fall Of Adam And The Inverted World (of Modernity) -- Kenosis And Construction: The Method Of Philosophy -- Universal Spiral -- God's Own Shelter From The World: Cosmic War And Cosmic Peace -- Bliss Before The Law -- Recentering The Human In A Cosmic Revolution -- Conclusion: Human Self-assertion Restaged At The Meta-level -- Clock Time As Fallen Time -- The Race To Bliss: Assembling Global Humanity -- Negative And Positive Philosophy; Or, Modernity And Christianity Redux -- Without God, Without Possibility: Racialization And Conversion -- Bliss Against Theodicy. Kirill Chepurin. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.