Der anarchische Gott

God is not a part of the cosmos but its creator. With this realisation, Israel once crossed a decisive threshold in the history of religion. As YHWH, the "I am there", he is never and nowhere not there. This makes him the great counterpart of the world and an anarchic elemental force. YHWH creates a distance from everything that is the case. And every ruler should now know that there is an instance above him with whom he must share dominion and before whom he must justify himself.

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Who is that actually - God? What does it mean to believe in God? What are the consequences of monotheism, the belief in one God? And is belief in God at all plausible? For a long time, people thought these questions belonged to a bygone era. Today, however, they are being asked again with renewed urgency. The Corona pandemic, religiously motivated violence, the abuse crisis in the church or even the questions about the meaning of one's own life lead again and again to the question of God. This question does not let us go so easily. It is at the centre of this year's Kreuzganggespräche.