Lovitt: GOTT - DEUS

"The god" of whom Heidegger speaks is not   the god of the metaphysical-theological tradition   of Christendom. Heidegger characteristically thinks of a dimension of the divine that the divinities make manifest — as among the Greeks, or for the Hebrew prophets, or in the preaching of Jesus — and toward which they beckon man. He can speak of the modern age as "the time of the gods that have fled and of the god that is coming" ("Remembrance of the Poet," Tr. Douglas Scott, in Existence and Being, introd. and analysis by Werner Brock [Chicago: Regnery, 1949], p. 288), and can anticipate a time when, through the fulfillment of the essence of that age, Being will make itself accessible to genuine questioning, and "ample space" will therewith be opened "for the decision as to whether Being will once again become capable of a god" (AWP 153).