So Heidegger DOESN'T say "we must in a way turn ourselves towards God and be open towards the mystery"
He insists instead that we direct our thinking towards *Being,* which is the *Substitute God*
The Marburgian Heidegger doesn't deny the existence of God. He denies that God as the Creator is an adequate explanations of the finiteness of humankind.
Nor does Heidegger expect Being to be a substitute of God, it is a synthetic a priori, not unlike time.
which he dreamed up to spite the Catholic church which he perceived as having spurned him twice. Once for kicking him out of the seminary, and secondly for denying him the professorship in Catholic theology at Freiburg. It is also interesting that in 1941 he abolished the very chair of Catholic Philosophy at Freiburg, which he himself had applied for twenty-five years earlier, and for which he was rejected.
Indeed, Heidegger did spite the Catholic Schulmetaphysik by asking the question of Being as such, instead of relating it to
Creation. He preferred the Lutheran
Schulmetaphysik ...
There is this inexplainable inborn affinity of Heidegger with everything Lutheran. Whether it is something Lutherans should be proud of ...
Henk
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