1- , Faculty of Persian Literature and Foreign Languages, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran , Farideh.Lazemi@yahoo.com
2- Faculty of Persian Literature and Foreign Languages, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran.
2- Faculty of Persian Literature and Foreign Languages, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran.
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This article examines the transformation of the concept of God in the modern age. With the rise of Romanticism, materialism, mechanistic necessitarianism, moral relativism, and skepticism toward both natural and revealed religion, the traditional foundations of the idea of God have been profoundly destabilized and reinterpreted within an anti-realist framework. In this context, God is stripped of transcendence and absoluteness, and the entire language of divine reference is subjected to deconstruction; something that can be considered as a kind of deconstruction of the concept of God. Such a transformation, significantly influenced by philosophers like David Hume, has gained increasing prominence in recent centuries. Nevertheless, this approach faces fundamental challenges: its inability to account for the essence and attributes of God, its neglect of the nature of religion, and its limitations in explaining religious experience. Therefore, it seems that the rationalist tradition may serve as an alternative to Romanticism by offering a more coherent framework for understanding humanity’s relation to God.
Key words: God; Modern Age; Deconstruction; Romanticism; Rationalism; David Hume.
This article examines the transformation of the concept of God in the modern age. With the rise of Romanticism, materialism, mechanistic necessitarianism, moral relativism, and skepticism toward both natural and revealed religion, the traditional foundations of the idea of God have been profoundly destabilized and reinterpreted within an anti-realist framework. In this context, God is stripped of transcendence and absoluteness, and the entire language of divine reference is subjected to deconstruction; something that can be considered as a kind of deconstruction of the concept of God. Such a transformation, significantly influenced by philosophers like David Hume, has gained increasing prominence in recent centuries. Nevertheless, this approach faces fundamental challenges: its inability to account for the essence and attributes of God, its neglect of the nature of religion, and its limitations in explaining religious experience. Therefore, it seems that the rationalist tradition may serve as an alternative to Romanticism by offering a more coherent framework for understanding humanity’s relation to God.
Key words: God; Modern Age; Deconstruction; Romanticism; Rationalism; David Hume.
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