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Even supposing there are many `religious' strains in Heidegger's philosophy, little attempt has been made to teach the systematic import which his considering has for defining an entire diversity of non secular and theological questions. accurately simply because his idea is against the building of any `dogma', his giant writings supply clues to what meaning(s) the `Sacred' and the `Divine' can have in a postmodern age the place the very danger of `faith' hangs within the stability. by means of exhibiting how Heidegger's personal considering might be interpreted as a fight to return to phrases with spiritual questions, this ebook undertakes a postmodern research of the Sacred which either attracts upon and transcends quite a few world-religions and denominations. A postmodern, non-sectarian imaginative and prescient of the Sacred thereby turns into attainable that is open to the plurality of non secular stories at the one hand, and but affirms on the opposite Heidegger's emphasis (in Beiträge zur Philosophie) at the `last god' because the displacing of all sectarian visions of god.
This ebook could have specified attract Heidegger students, in addition to scholars drawn to the overlap among phenomenology and philosophical theology.

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