ABSTRACT
The God of meditation space is the God of the Modernist artwork, the God of a certain sort of apophatic spirituality and also the God of analytic philosophy of religion. The Modernist artwork represents the authentic spirituality of the ‘central core’ approach to God. For the crucial feature of Modernist artworks, characteristic of the work of Mark Rothko, as well as that of artists like Barnett Newman and Clifford, is that they are wholly abstract and empty of any suggestion of figuration of narrative. The story of the shift of emphasis in which spirituality becomes increasingly associated with the private world of the individual is clearly one in which modernity has had a prominent, if not decisive, role. The ‘turn to the subject’ so characteristic of modernity is one of the fulcrums around which the term ‘spirituality’ has become twisted and reshaped.
