Heidegger's Pauline and Lutheran Roots

by Duane Armitage

Overview

In this work of philosophy, theology, and intellectual history, Duane Armitage offers a clear interpretation of Heidegger's enigmatic theology as uniquely Pauline and Lutheran. He argues that the real impetus, aim, and structure of Heidegger's philosophy of religion as well as his philosophy as a whole, are rooted in Pauline (and Lutheran) ontology. He thus demonstrates that continental philosophy of religion, and, to an extent, Continental Philosophy as a whole, is indebted to St. Paul and Martin Luther. This examination also shows how much of continental thinking itself is traceable to Heidegger's onto-theological critique and hence to Luther and St. Paul. Armitage argues that St. Paul and Luther, or at least Luther's specific reading of St. Paul, remain the un-thought origins of postmodern thinking on religion, and perhaps postmodern thinking in general.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349954193
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	03/31/2018
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
Pages:	199
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Duane Armitage is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Scranton, USA. He previously taught in the Philosophy Department at Gonzaga University, USA.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Martin Luther
2. Heidegger’s and St. Paul’s The Phenomenology of Religious Life
3. Being and Time and St. Paul
4. Framing Contributions to Philosophy: Deconstructing Deconstruction
5. Where Does Contributions to Philosophy Begin?
6. The Last God
7. Heidegger and Postmodern Philosophy of Religion