Thinking God—Today?

Abstract

The essay tackles the question of the possibility of thinking God in the present day. It emphasizes the necessity of contemporary translations of traditional talk about God, in the contemporary age, which is characterized by God’s “absence,” “death,” or “fading.” The contribution first points towards the phenomenon of “pious” atheism that is friendly towards religion; it presents the attempt to justify religion and faith in God functionally, before critiquing this attempt because of its human, all too human access to God and because of its circularity; it instead approaches a different thinking of God, and in doing so, indicates a place for the experience of benevolence as a path to God.

Keywords

• god
• thinking god
• nihilism
• "pious" atheism
• benevolence