In his contribution, Philip Gonzales stages a dialogue between two seemingly antithetical thinkers, Desmond and Agamben. Gonzales argues that Desmond provides a reconstructed Christian metaphysics against the profaning thought of Agamben. Agamben is incapable of thinking the Sabbath or rest of God beyond the terms of retreat while metaxology provides the resources to think the Sabbath of God as part of the creatureliness of human beings.