Heidegger Luther’s Reader: The Search for a Original Christian Life and the Sin’s Problem

Abstract

The influence of theology on Heidegger's initial thinking is a proven fact. In fact, Heidegger began his student life in Catholic Theology, migrating to Protestant theology, using it as an important aid in the beginning of his philosophical thinking. Several factors led Heidegger to migrate not only in the intellectual field but also in the field of religious praxis, one of these factors, for example, was his discontent with the extremely dogmatist stance of Neo-Scholastic thought. The Reformer Martin Luther was one of the important figures in this transition. Through the study of his thought, Heidegger sought to answer some important questions of the theological problematic. In this work, in addition to a brief exposition of Heidegger's migration from Catholicism to Protestantism, we will examine how he deals with two of these questions: first, about the original Christian life, and the second referring to Luther and the problem of sin.