Abstract

The title of the following remarks is the elaboration of the abbreviated title “Phenomenology and Theology,” under which Heidegger gave a much-noticed lecture in Tübingen on July 8th, 1927, and in Marburg on February 14th, 1928. In April 1927, “Being and Time” had been published and in the summer semester of the same year, Heidegger gave the lecture “The Basic Problems of Phenomenology” as the second elaboration of the third section of “Being and Time.” Since in “Phenomenology and Theology” a fundamental definition of the relationship of the hermeneutic phenomenology of existence of “Being and Time” to Christian theology is given, we first ask how the question of God is located in regard to Heidegger’s path from the beginning of his most original questioning to his basic work “Being and Time.” Only against the background of an answer to this initial question can Heidegger’s explanations in “Phenomenology and Theology” be adequately understood.