國立臺灣大學哲學論評

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This paper focuses on the early phase of Heidegger’s philosophizing of religion and even theology, that is, the period when he moved from Catholic theology to phenomenological philosophy and presents the ideas based on his most relevant text, “Introduction to the Phenomenology of Religion” (“Einleitung in die Phänomenologie der Religion”, Wintersemester 1920/21) in The Phenomenology of Religious Life (Phaenomenologie des religiösen Lebens) as a study of his dimension of relgion. This essay presents a systemic-hermeneutical survey of the early Heideggerian dimension of philosophizing about religion as presented in the “Introduction to the Phenomenology of Religion”. The first part is a so-called ‘Methodological Introduction: Philosophy, Actual Life Experience and Religious Phenomenology’, which introduces the basic concept of his phenomenology of religion, i.e. actual life experience (faktische Lebenserfahrung), and its method, i.e. formal indication (formale Anzeige). The second part, ‘A Phenomenological Explication of Concrete Religious Phenomena in Connection with Pauline Letters’, applies the phenomenological concept and method of religion to interpret religious phenomena in the concrete world of life, with particular reference to the Pauline Letters as an example. In this way, one can not only gain a first glimpse into the early Heideggerian phenomenological approach that was guided by his sense of theological-philosophical problems, but also into how classic Heideggerean themes and concepts have their origin in a religious phenomenology of early Christian faith, that is, from historicity to temporality and from actual life experience to Dasein.