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The Ontological Nature Of Theology: On Heidegger's "Phenomenology And Theology", Casey Garrett Spinks
The Ontological Nature Of Theology: On Heidegger's "Phenomenology And Theology", Casey Garrett Spinks
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Following his newfound celebrity upon publication of Being and Time, Martin Heidegger delivered a lecture in 1927 and 1928, titled “Phenomenology and Theology,” where he discussed how his recent groundbreaking work in existential phenomenology relates to Christian theology. Far from offering his philosophy as a method for theology, he instead attempted to utterly separate the two, setting the former as fundamental ontology and the latter as a positive science more akin to history, with the Christian faith as its positive object of study. The lecture was left unpublished until 1969, when Heidegger added an appendix, a piece exemplary of the …