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No Other God - Wording the World and Worlding the Word (Paperback)
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No Other God - Wording the World and Worlding the Word (Paperback)
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In the aftermath of writing The Death of God, Vahanian had
opportunity to advance his discussion. In his introduction to No
Other God, he wrote, "Taken as nothing less if nothing more than a
cultural phenomenon, the death of God signifies the transition from
radical monotheism to radical immanentism and marks the birth of
secularism as the vector of the new religiosity. It announces the
the advent of a new, culturally Christian, paganism, even while
theology is busy overlooking its indigence or covering it up with a
glorified but amnesic vocabulary....But what I have denounced
elsewhere as the charter of the incipient post-Christian idolatry
is now proclaimed as the first article of an immanentist
religiosity. So called 'Christian atheism' glories precisely in
what I deplored when I first used the term 'death of God.'
Meanwhile, Christian theology serves only to separate the Church
from the world, instead of pointing to the fact that the Church is
-- or should be -- what happens when the world hears the Word of
God." Vahanian, recognizing that God is a word, and that God is not
God without the world, ultimately helps readers understand the two
poles of language that need to be kept in balance: wording the
world and worlding the word. In this light, idolatry of every kind
is threatened by new language, both symbolic and iconoclastic,
which serves to usher in a new world.
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