Gott erfahren

Otmar Meuffels asks how religious human beings can experience God in a responsible manner today without falling victim to naïve concepts of God. Modern theology must be prepared to face postmodern philosophies. Thus the question of how it is possible to experience God as reality and not only as a projection or a model of thought. The possibility of experiencing reality and God requires a perspective for communication and interpretation, a perspective which provides important interlocutors (Brandom, Gadamer, Ricoeur) for a critical theology. The author combines the results with examples from the Old Testament. Due to the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the New Testament reveals a changed perspective for experience and interpretation. Biblical experiences and experiences with Easter have to be put into present-day terms by making use of crucial experiences in our time.