of ruling their own affairs indefinitely (because of their feeling of omnipotence founded in rationalism), to God seen as ‘infinitely distant man’.56 If man is capable of unfolding the sense of the universe through mathematization that is treated as the only valuable and worthy mode of existence, one can say that man mathematized himself. But, being de facto, in a strictly theological sense, the image of God, man also abstracted and mathematized God,57 dismissing thereby God from being as ultimate