Bilal Bekalp

This article examines whether religious meaning can survive the critique of ontotheology without reinstalling metaphysical guarantees in postmetaphysical form. Beginning with Heidegger's diagnosis of God as causa sui and the highest being, it compares three strategies: Jean-Luc Marion's phenomenology of givenness and saturated phenomena, Gianni Vattimo's hermeneutics of weakening and kenosis, and John D. Caputo's theology of the event. Each displaces the metaphysical God while generating a distinctive risk: Transcendence may harden into untouchable excess, weakening may reduce religion to ethical residue, and the event may lapse into perpetual postponement and theological indeterminacy. The author argues that when any single postmetaphysical concept is elevated into a final guarantee of religious meaning, it risks generating a new form of idolatry. A viable philosophy of religion therefore requires sustained interpretive vigilance and responsibility under radical uncertainty rather than renewed foundational guarantees.