God as Intersubjectivity

God and Communicative Rationality

Communicative rationality can replace God by providing a secular sacred that can anchor moral values. It can also provide a motivating mindful utopia. But God and communicative rationality already have a common core. They can both be seen as containing a radical intersubjectivity that facilitates the translation of one into the other.

‘God’ represents a communicative structure that obliges men and women to encounter each other across something objective and universal. God is the religious name for the secular sacred features of communicative rationality. This rationality enables the coherence of communication and understanding across individual subjectivities. God is the religious reflection of the intersubjectivity that bonds and binds human existence.

 

 

God Is In the Relationship Between People

The ritual basis of Christian worship is a form of public interaction. In it participants share an idea of God as a presence felt through the interaction of people with one another. Not only is God known in and through interaction – God is interaction. It is not that God is known through other people but that God is the relating.