The death of Jesus Christ has been an occasion for theologians and philosophers to speculate about the end of God. With Jesus’ death on the cross, God died and this is the end of God’s story. Jesus is the end of God. But then there is Easter. It is part of the narrative of Jesus Christ and as such cannot be ignored. Resurrection belongs to this narrative. Death of God theologians have trouble integrating this into their theologies.
However, even on the basis of the resurrection we ought to conclude that Jesus signals and acts out God’s end. Here is how this works. In this short piece, I will first side with the theologians and philosophers who have concluded that religion has ran its course and that after its demise, can only signal God’s end. Then, I will argue, that when we abandon self-constructed God-talk we open ourselves to understand the true meaning of God’s end. In Jesus, we find the true meaning of this end.
Well, we have come to the end of God, or better: we need to come to the end of God. If all we have is talk about God, belief — inert belief, that is — in God, analyzing of God, we may think we are in touch with God. But we aren’t. If it is true that we need to talk right about God — which I believe to be necessary — we can only come the end of God. Only God’s end will be the start of a new understanding of who God is and what God’s ends…
