ISSN: 2641-9130
Authors: Alves Fonts D*
The theme about the ‘death of God’ is an important discussion even for men of today. Because of it our article seeks to elucidate how some important theologians and philosophers faced that matter. For that, we will use, as a base for our written, the work “God who comes to man” by Joseph Moingt. The ancient vision of philosophy and theology about man and world could not be thought without the certain idea of God’s existence. Nevertheless, with the modern conception of metaphysics, the transcendence conception changed and this form of knowledge became more anthropologic. That route was open by Kant and Hegel. But with Nietzsche and Feuerbach the idea of God turned out to disappear from the horizon of man’s explanation for everything. Fear and necessity made man somehow to create God. This way, God is man and man is God. As a form of answer, Kierkegaard opened another way centered in the theme of existence, where it is possible to speak about God. Here phenomenology also gave some contributions. All those thoughts show that man’s openness to God cannot be denied, then they became a statement of God’s existence by themselves, giving the man the possibility to know Him.
Keywords: God; Death; Theology; Philosophy; Anthropology
