Apatheism: The Age of Civic Indifference

Dr Oliver Hartwich
Quadrant
8 July, 2025

A book currently climbing the German best-seller charts caught my attention recently, not least because its title poses a question that seems at once paradoxical and profound. Jan Loffeld’s Wenn nichts fehlt, wo Gott fehlt (“When nothing is missing where God is missing”) examines a growing phenomenon across Western societies that transcends conventional secularisation.

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