This research aims at identifying the theology of modern man in the perspective of Sayed Hossein Nasr on Contemporary Reality. Science and technology have progressed in the 20th century beyond human imagination. One of its greatly-concerned impacts has been men’s high dependency on technology rather than reliance to God. Religion, as it is widely believed, is currently undergoing marginalization as a product of technology answering every human’s needs. God and religion have been much relegated as irrelevant. Such an attitude in modern men has raised a fundamental issue in theology as how to see and respond to the reality. Sayed Hossein Nasr sees that over-reliance on technology has degraded human values and eligion with all its spiritual dimensions replaced by the supremacy of rationalism, empiricism, positivism, and pragmatism. Human and divine values have lost their significance to rational measures which dominate and bring about imbalance and selfalienation in modern men. This study argues that despite its phenomenal achievements in science and technology rationalism which negates spiritual aspects in human life which leads to a lopsided modernity. Man will only grow partially in intellectual capacity and will not reach to his true existential self. He may rise to great material accomplishments but will fail to understand his being and existence. A solution to this reality in Nasr’s view is a return to spirituality in which modern man consciously brings his ratio back under the guidance of Divinity. Theologically, Nasr’s view is not compatible with Mu’tazila’s rational theology which goes on the same lane with Western Rationalism that excessively deifies ratio and negates God’s active involvement in human life. It is more compatible with the Ahlussunah’s theology of Proportional which gives right proportion to both ratio and spirituality.

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