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<article xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" dtd-version="1.4" article-type="research-article" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="ru">Logos et Praxis</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2587-9715</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2658-3585</issn></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15688/lp.jvolsu.2026.1.10</article-id><article-categories><subj-group><subject>Other</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="ru">«СМЕРТЬ БОГА» В ПОСТСЕКУЛЯРНОМ КОНТЕКСТЕ: СОВРЕМЕННОЕ ФИЛОСОФСКОЕ ПРОЧТЕНИЕ ГАБРИЭЛЯ ВАХАНЯНА</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>“DEATH OF GOD” IN POSTSECULAR CONTEXT: MODERN PHILOSOPHICAL INTERPRETATION OF GABRIEL VAHANIAN</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Бабкин</surname><given-names>Вячеслав Сергеевич</given-names></name><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Babkin</surname><given-names>Vyacheslav</given-names></name></name-alternatives><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"/><email>vyachesl4vbabkin@yandex.ru</email><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0009-0008-3205-1263</contrib-id></contrib><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Volgograd State University (Volgograd, Russian Federation)</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><aff-alternatives id="aff2"><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Волгоградский государственный университет  (Волгоград, Российская Федерация)</institution></aff></aff-alternatives></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="epub" iso-8601-date="2026-06-04"><day>04</day><month>06</month><year>2026</year></pub-date><volume>25</volume><issue>1</issue><fpage>98</fpage><lpage>104</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2025-08-24"><day>24</day><month>08</month><year>2025</year></date><date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="2026-02-10"><day>10</day><month>02</month><year>2026</year></date></history><permissions><license xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:title="CC BY 4.0"><ali:license_ref>https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</ali:license_ref><license-p xml:lang="ru">CC BY 4.0</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri content-type="pdf" xlink:href="publication-64e9b115-5c90-461c-a5c9-f508b1804364.pdf" xlink:title="PDF"/><abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>Габриэль Ваханян (1927–2012) – радикальный христианский теолог, представитель «теологии смерти Бога». В России он менее известен, чем другой представитель того же направления – Томас Альтицер. Между тем оригинальные построения Г. Ваханяна предлагают нетривиальную точку зрения на то, что означает «смерть Бога» в свете философии культуры. Хотя не все идеи Г. Ваханяна релевантны современной культурной ситуации, не все его прогнозы оправдались, однако общая характеристика им современной эпохи как постхристианской вполне заслуживает внимания. Мысля «смерть Бога» как метафору процесса секуляризации, Г. Ваханян, в отличие от других теологов «смерти Бога», критически оценивает его результаты. Согласно Г. Ваханяну, христианство во многом утратило свои позиции, оказавшись втянутым в процесс секуляризации, который парадоксальным образом само же инспирировало. В итоге ожидание абсолютной справедливости в эсхатоне сменилось политическими механизмами обеспечения относительной справедливости внутри истории. Бог из таинственного источника индивидуальной судьбы человека, коллективной судьбы человека и коллективной судьбы человечества превратился в малозначимый артефакт христианской культуры. Вера как рискованная самоотдача человека в отношениях с Богом стала «религиозностью» – одной из сфер жизни современного, защищенного от рисков богообщения цивилизованного человека. В статье показана диалектика взглядов Г. Ваханяна, относящихся к нынешнему и будущему состоянию христианства. Делается вывод, что мыслитель сам не смог дать уверенный ответ, насколько исчерпан творческий потенциал христианства и насколько обратима та ситуация, в котором оно оказалось. В заключительной части статьи был охарактеризован эвристический потенциал «теологии смерти Бога» Г. Ваханяна для понимания современной нам постсекулярной ситуации.</p></abstract><abstract xml:lang="en" abstract-type="summary"><p>Gabriel Vahanian (1927–2012) – radical Christian theologian, one of the “death of God theology” proponents. In Russia he is lesser known than Thomas Altizer, another member of the same movement. Nonetheless, G. Vahanian’s original thought constructs provide a non-trivial point of view on the “death of God” meaning in the philosophy of culture context. Although not all of G. Vahanian’s ideas are relevant to the modern cultural situation and none of his predictions have proven to be true, the general characterization of his times as post-Christian deserves attention. While thinking of “death of God” as a secularization process metaphor, G. Vahanian, unlike other death of God theologians, critically assesses its consequences. According to G. Vahanian, Christianity, to a large degree, lost its positions after paradoxically inspiring the secularization process and getting involved in it. As a result, waiting for absolute eschatological justice was replaced with attaining relative justice via political mechanisms inside history. God has become a Christian culture artifact of little significance instead of being a mystical source of both individual human fate and collective mankind fate. Faith, risky dedication, and part of human-God relations, transformed into “religiosity” – merely one sphere of a modern civilized person’s life who is sheltered from risks stemming from communication with God. Further, it is demonstrated that G. Vahanian’s views on modern Christianity and its future are characteristic of peculiar dialectics. It is concluded that the theologian himself was not entirely sure how much constructive potential Christianity still has and whether the current situation can be reversed. The final part is dedicated to the heuristic potential that G. Vahanian’s “death of God theology” has for the description of our modern postsecular situation.</p></abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>смерть Бога</kwd><kwd>постсекулярность</kwd><kwd>постхристианская культура</kwd><kwd>религиозность</kwd><kwd>вера</kwd><kwd>теология смерти Бога</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>death of  God</kwd><kwd>postsecularism</kwd><kwd>post-Christian culture</kwd><kwd>religiosity</kwd><kwd>faith</kwd><kwd>death of God theology</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><ref id="ref1"><mixed-citation publication-type="other" xml:lang="ru">Багаева, Цырендоржиева 2023 – Багаева К.А., Цырендоржиева Д.Ш. Социальные функции религии и специфика их реализации в условиях современности // Вестник БГУ. 2023. № 1. С. 18–30.</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="ref2"><mixed-citation publication-type="other" xml:lang="ru">Беккет 2019 – Беккет С. В ожидании Годо. 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