The Face of God in a Secular World: An Analysis of Roger Scruton's Thought

This article offers an in-depth philosophical analysis of Roger Scruton's thought in the context of the contemporary crisis of secularization. The author examines how the process of religion being displaced by secular ideologies has impacted the human condition, drawing on Eric Voegelin's concept of the immanentization of the eschaton. The text juxtaposes monotheistic perspectives with the discoveries of neurobiology and cosmology, searching for traces of transcendence in a world dominated by reductionism. Scruton demonstrates that despite Nietzsche's proclamation of the "death of God," humanity still needs the sacred, which it finds in personal relationships, moral law, and the phenomenology of the face. This is an important contribution to the discussion on the return to metaphysics and the role of religion in building social order and an individual sense of meaning in the secularized reality of the West.