Reimagining the Sacred by Kearney Richard; Zimmermann Jens;

Author:Kearney, Richard; Zimmermann, Jens;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: PHI027000, Philosophy/Movements/Deconstruction, REL051000, Religion/Philosophy
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2015-12-14T16:00:00+00:00

RK: So how, finally, might one translate this hermeneutic nihilism of being into a Christian thinking about God?

GV: I come back to Saint Paul and his notion of hos me, “as if they do not” [1 Corinthians 7:29–31]. This is a Pauline equivalent of the ontological difference: being is other than what it is. It is nihilism defined as a certain respect for distance and difference. Like Max Scheler says of the phenomenological epoché, it gives us a form of “moral detachment,” a form of freedom of negation and suspension. Heidegger had a similar appreciation of phenomenology, early on, a quite Pauline and Christian one, but when he became a national socialist he betrayed this view. He became a Nazi when he stopped reading Paul (and Husserl) and started reading Hölderlin. His initial impulse as a Christian hermeneut was to reject the old metaphysics of Being and a certain Calvinist doctrine of predestination. He wanted to save Being—and God—from theodicy, to rethink and remember them (Andenken) instead as event. But the lure of Hitler was the temptation to return to a metaphysical politics of pure origin—as so many of the German Romantics fantasized in relation to ancient Greece, the great beginning when all was one. He thus betrayed not only his revolutionary Pauline Christianity but also his great insight into the historicity of Being as event, as a happening of difference, as gift (es gibt).

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