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To: koan who wrote (180805)	1/31/2012 8:22:30 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541741

So, given your closed mind about religion and theology, you refuse to read the work on two theologians who rethought the protestant tradition in the light of Martin Heidegger's existential philosophy. If you start with the notion that these were communal narratives that addressed questions concerning the meaning of life, Tillich and Bultmann both worked on the issue of whether it was important to recast those narratives in terms of the intellectual life of the early twentieth century. And in this case what each termed the dominant philosophy of the time, Heidegger's work. If you read them, you would discover both argued that the content of belief (believing in God, etc.) was far less important, in fact not important at all, than what one did with the life given to finite creatures who could not know beyond their finitude. Kierkegaard belonged in this group but only on the basis of future readings such as even Sartre ventured. Again, I recommend reading Tillich. It's not about belief in supernatural or three storied universes or even two storied universes or the literal truth of any kind of scriptures but how one grapples with the questions of the meaning of life without ever knowing the answer.