Atheistisch glauben

God is dead! Only which one? For a long time now, the funeral announcements have been circulating for a God whom we imagine as a super-powerful agent or as a sovereignly existing spirit in the quasi-spatiotemporal beyond. A theology that understands itself as atheistic is serious about the burial of God against all contemporary attempts at theistic revision. At the same time, it opposes programmes that reduce religious faith to a moral way of life, a state of mind or a self-relationship that remains entirely with itself. The atheistic alternative becomes visible when religious faith is understood as a concrete perspective on everything that surrounds us. Nothing new beyond the world is then asserted, but a completely new view of this one world is practised. This essay illustrates what this can mean in concrete terms and makes it clear that atheism does not deny the meaning of faith - on the contrary: atheism and faith in God are not mutually exclusive. Rather, atheism specifies what God can still be about today.