How to Think about God in the Context of Postmodernism
Abstract
The “death of God” is probably one of most famous phrases ever to have been uttered by any philosopher. Its pronouncement is undoubtedly surrounded by a certain aura of mysticism and mysteriousness. On the one hand, it has been stated repeatedly that the “death of God” is an established fact in light of which our cultural, social, and religious lives should be lived out. On the other hand, it is not always as easy to pinpoint what that fact is and what its nihilistic and postmodernist entailments are. What we do know is that it must be dealt with seriousness. Indeed, I suggest that this can begin to be done if one appropriates some of the concepts in the thought of Marion and Ricoeur that enable us to think through the implications of the “death of God”.References
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