Lied aan de voet van de berg = Song At The Foot Of The Mountain, 1971 - 1998

This song Oosterhuis regards as a refutation of Nietzsche’s Absolutism. It acknowledges Nietzsche's critique, that the names and images we use for God are human descriptions and attributes, but arew mere inventions. But Oosterhuis' claim is that far from being mere inventions, they express realities which are to be found only beyond the words we use. Also, the Thomistic doctrine of analogy cannot be equated literally but only figuaratively, as a mean of expressing the ineffable. We would have no problem with Nietzsche's contention that we are talking about a Non-being, since in fact we are talking about Pure Being itself. No name could ever do justice to One for whom there is no name. While working on refining this translation, Huijbers took great pains to interpret the rationale behind Nietzsche's contention of the Death of God.