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- Publisher
- Wiley
- Copyright
- © 2017 Trustees for Roman Catholic Purposes Registered
- ISSN
- 0018-1196
- eISSN
- 1468-2265
- DOI
- 10.1111/heyj.12283
- Publisher site
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Abstract
In his The Faith of the Faithless, Simon Critchley calls for a kind of faith for those who do not subscribe to any fixed dogmatic or mythological presuppositions, a kind of subjective faith for those who are faithless objectively. How is it possible for one to have faith when indeed one is faithless? Critchley looks to the early Heidegger and his readings of St. Paul circa 1920, and finds a compelling analysis of the enactment (Vollzug) of faith, vis‐à‐vis the early Pauline epistles, that will later provide the structure to the ontological–existentials of Being and Time. Critchley argues for a rereading of these existentials through the lens of Heidegger's Paul in order to arrive at a conception of faithless faith. Critchley seems to be tacitly suggesting that in Being and Time, Heidegger presents a kind of ‘de‐mythologized’ Pauline faith, in the form of the authenticity of Dasein (Eigentlichkeit des Daseins), that can serve as a form of ‘faith’ for those who are ‘faithless.’ Yet such seeking for a kind of authentic ‘faith’ sundered from any mythological presuppositions was indeed the task of Rudolf Bultmann, namely to find the conditions for the possibility of New Testament faith via the Dasein
Journal
The Heythrop Journal – Wiley
Published: Jul 1, 2017