As many have noted and explained, this same distinction between a monotheistic God and a natural world lies behind the rise of conventional science and the modern process of disenchantment, or “de-sorcering of the world” (Entzauberung der Welt), as famously observed and named by the German sociologist Max Weber in 1904. A most profound antimagic and a most devastating disenchantment, working hand in hand, have removed all meaning and story from the objective world as “God” has been increasingly separated from the same.33
