In 1966, in an interview published posthumously a decade later, Martin Heidegger expressed his despair about the course and future of humanity, arguing that now, "only a God can save us," where the voice of Being, Nazi messianism, and poetry (the futile successive hopes of the philosopher of the Black Forest) have failed.

This statement, although it sounds "reverent" to the ears of many religious individuals and is implied or boldly stated by numerous religious leaders, is regarded not simply as problematic but as an unholy position, both from the biblical perspective of the Judeo-Christian tradition and under the scrutiny of a politically literate and democratically alert consciousness, nourished with the modern spirit of personal responsibility of each citizen for the fate of the world.

At best, the Heideggerian cry is monophysitic (consequently, disastrously apolitical), as it expects everything from God, sidelining human initiative and contribution against barbarism and chaos.

In the present study, we argue that politics begins beyond "metaphysical despair" and Messianism, as soon as we leave behind fatalism, together with the unexamined reproduction of traditional hierarchies, and decide that our lives and the common good can and must change for the better, indeed indefinitely, eternally.

The Christian faith, given its universal character and its non-causal eschatological dynamics, can support the vision of social justice that underpins liberal democracy, provided it remains faithful to the spirit of Christ and not to the pious yet misanthropic Pharisees: that is, to the logic that unwaveringly and uncompromisingly focuses on human beings and their needs, far removed from any whorish entanglement with the current Caesar.

A key point of our work is that Christian spirituality is not suited for attempts at "pious escape" from the world and history, in light of the Gospel of Judgment, which makes it clear that the relationship of any potential "citizen of heaven" with God necessarily passes through concern for the life, freedom, and dignity of earthly fellow beings (according to "Where is Abel your brother?").

For this reason, the blessed Fr. Georgy Florovsky tirelessly reminded us that whoever is indifferent to History can never be a good Christian.