On the Absence and Unknowability of God (Biblia.com)

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This volume, one of the earliest by Christos Yannaras, was first published in 1967 and has become a contemporary classic. Yannaras begins by outlining Heidegger’s analysis of the fate of western metaphysics, which ends, he argues, in a nihilistic atheism. Yannaras’s response is largely to accept Heidegger’s analysis, but to argue that, although it applies to the western tradition of what...

position that rejects God’s existence on the basis of rational arguments. The proclamation of the ‘death of God’ is a testimony: it indicates a vacuum, an absence. And such testimony is not just a matter of observation, it can also involve consciously taking a stand, namely the historical stance of European man before the problem of God. Such a stance declines to accept as ‘ultimate reality’ the product of an intellectual process, to accept something beyond logic as a product of logic, or what is

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