Heidegger und die Gottesfrage

In the various phases of Heidegger’s life and work, the many voices of his “thelogical heritage” can be heard in all their variety. Already present in Heidegger’s early theological studies, the search for God first takes the form of a phenomenology of the religious life, then of an implicit appropriation of key concepts from the Judeo-Christian tradition, finally of an expectation of a “last” God. Despite the “atheistic” approach of Heideggerian thought, the question of God and the question of Being can be seen as intrinsically related and as guiding a confrontation with traditional theology that leads to the definition of an “other” logos, which should address God as well as Being more appropriately than metaphysics has done. The non-denominational sense of the divine, which permeates Heidegger’s meditation on the truth of Being, thus lays claim to a “thoughtful” existence within the broader context of the world, through and beyond our “desolate” time.