>This pigeon squares up to the cat. Heidegger consistently makes a clear
>distinction between "Church doctrine" (die Kirchenlehre) and Christian
>faith (der Glaube). The references here are too many to be cited, but
>they appear in key places in the Einfuehrung in die Metaphysik, in the
>Nietzsche lectures (Der Europaeischer Nihilismus in particular) and most
>interestingly in Gelassenheit, all of which appear strongly hostile to
>Christianity, but actually support this reading.
Could you cite these in more detail? As I understood it, Heidegger said
that both doctrine and faith had the effect of turning the brain into
italian salad.
>Just in terms of Heidegger's biography, he was certainly buried as a
>Catholic (and was accorded the rights of the Church) and appears to have
>retained a lifelong loyalty of a kind to the Church.
Although he claimed late in life he never left the Church, he seemed to
ignore that 28 year lapse from 1917 to 1945 and the fact that he regarded
Catholicism as in need of extermination during the 1930's.
_______________________________________________________________________
We will stand nowhere, where the flamethrower has not completed through
annihilation the great cleansing. - Ernst Juenger
--- from list heidegger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---