The Challenge of Ontology of the Multiple to the Theological Thinking

Abstract

The article states that in the 20th century the transition from the one to the multiple took place in the fields of conceptions of politics, science, art and love. This change in the consciousness in the second half of the 20th century determined the occurrence of the ontology of the multiple that challenged the concept of God as monarch, identified with the one. F. Nietzsche’s statement “God is dead” means the death of God as a monarch. In our epoch the image of God will be vital only when the ontology of the multiple be considered in its creation. The conception of God, in view of the multiple, is the conception of God as a network of hyperplays. The Holy Trinity, a symbol of Christianity, corresponds to the concept of the multiple in God and is a testimony of the focus of the western societies to the political, social and ethnical multiple. Keywords: one, multiple, God, monarch, hyperplays. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15823/zz.2014.022