Abstract:
Literally, theology is a ‘science of God’. Traditionally Christian theology was
understood as a discourse on the nature, attributes and existence of a divine
God. In the fall of nineteenth century Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), one of
the forerunners of the contemporary schools of thought and a radical critic of
Western society and culture published an obituary that ‘God is dead’. This was
developed as the death of God philosophy and some theologians later
formulated the death of God theology. In the background of the announcement
‘God is dead’ the traditional theology as a study about a living God becomes
invalid because the God of the traditional theology is no more. Therefore a
new theology is urgently envisaged based on a God who involves with the
human situations and ‘who dances with the humans’. It will not be a theology
about a God captured by a religion, but about a God as such and will be free
from the barriers of religions, moral and value systems. It will lead the human
beings to a universal spirituality acceptable to all, not a spirituality based on a
particular religion.
