People of God, people of being: the theological presuppositions of Heidegger’s path of thought John D. Caputo Theology has found it a very agreeable business to appropriate Heidegger, not least because a great deal of what Heidegger has to say arises from a...
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People of God, people of being: the theological presuppositions of Heidegger’s path of thought John D. Caputo Theology has found it a very agreeable business to appropriate Heidegger, not least because a great deal of what Heidegger has to say arises from a genuine proximity to theology, a certain appropriation of theology that Heidegger has all along been making. When theology looks deeply enough into Heidegger’s well, it often finds its own face looking back. For his thought, both early and late, is marked throughout by a transparent theological analogy. These unmistakable theological presuppositions constitute what Heidegger himself would call das im Sagen Ungesagte, what is unsaid and unthought in what someone says and thinks, the exposition of which constitutes a genuine interpretation (Auslegung) of a thinker. As someone whose work has always been situated in the distance between theology and philosophy, my first interests lay in exploring the intersection of Heidegger with religio
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