The issue of God’s silence arises in the modern world not only among atheists and agnostics, but also among believers. The former, who deny the realm of the spirit, see in it evidence of the tragic nature of the world in which there is no space for God. The latter, that is believers, point to yet another possibility. Referring to the scriptural testimonies about the silence of God and experiencing His “absence” in everyday life, they do not accept the emptiness of existence or the negation of the sense of human fate and the reduction of the question of God to the product of the illusory or fearful imagination of a man not yet mature enough to be independent. What is more, they consider the state of the “absence and lack” of God as a mystical purification necessary for the encounter with the living God and as a spiritual experience of growing up in a fragile human being who takes upon himself the whole dimension of his contingency and the whole immensity of grace in prayer, that is, in the act of trust, confidence and love.
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No. 19 (2023)
Published: 2023-12-22
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