“The awareness of the increase in sunsets is due to the understanding of the present as a time of increasing complexity and complications. We are no longer just dealing with this or that decline of the gods, which gave mythologists, theologians and artists pause. If the sunsets of gods are followed by a development of inventive cultures as such, it is easy to suppose that the coming sunsets will not stop at the mysteries of human inventiveness either.
PETER SLOTERDIJK

In the second volume of Spheres, Globes, which describes globalization from its beginnings to its preliminary development in the late 20th century, Peter Sloterdijk identifies God as the primary source that provides security and protection to man. This assumption, valid in all religions - at least in monotheistic ones - generates paradoxes that had devastating consequences from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age: the advance of radicalization since the turn of the century is its most serious consequence.

Yet what has sparked the virulent claim "God is dead" since the late 19th century? Perhaps a change of mind? Or is it a diagnosis of what has happened? Should it be understood as a prognosis that puts an end to all interfaith arguments?

Peter Sloterdijk enumerates in The Heritage of the Lost God, for the first time, all the consequences of that statement, and in this analysis covers various areas of current theology and philosophy, as well as current stark politics or immediate cultural, scientific and technological advances .