ABSTRACT

This chapter explores the piece and try to throw some light on what You, the Living might contribute to the theological task of tracing "God in context" through all kinds of (con)texts and imaginative games of life. More concisely, religion, and even morality, function in the anterooms of life in the city beneath the clouds as an orientation toward something that can hinder absolutistic and life-threatening developments in our human social skills. The fascination about the human as the human's joy and the great reservoir of trust might, in this context, serve as central spiritual skills between belief as orientation and belief as a function of daily life. J. W. Goethe's insight into the escaping transience of lived happiness, the understanding that humanity is its own fascination and pleasure, and the theologian's insights into the deeper essence of trust seem simply old-fashioned and almost irrelevant.