Is God Dead?
See Note below “God is not dead. The man to whom God revealed Himself is dead.” I found this quote when I was reading an essay on Byung-Chul Han, South Korean-German philosopher. I came to know about him only when Sintra , fellow blogger from Portugal, pointed him out to me in a comment . The quote prompted me toward a deeper inquiry about the philosopher-theologian who is just a year older than me. The crux of what Han said above is that the kind of human being who experienced the world as charged with divine presence has largely disappeared. That is, we have come to a civilisational situation that prevents us from experiencing the divine as our ancestors did. The ancient religious person lived in an enchanted universe. A thunderstorm was not merely weather; it was a supernatural sign. A dream was not random neural activity; it could be a message. A mountain was not just geology; it was sacred space. Reality was infused with divinity. We people today inhabit what...
