Abstract

Heidegger's early research on St. Paul's epistles provide a basis for the development of phenomenology of religion, which beyond all objectifying and psychologizing attitude takes into consideration the very phenomenon of religion in view of the flow of its "realization" in the factical "believer's Dasein". Heidegger's rehabilitation of St. Paul can thus serve as an elucidation of the structure of "original Christian religiosity", which mirrors the human ontological "concern" for his own Dasein. This concern stems from the uncertain knowledge of the redemption and the advent of the Saviour. It is in this sense that the phenomenology of original Christian religiosity turns out to be an analysis of the believer's Dasein which consequently prepares the existential analysis of Dasein which is given its final form in Heidegger's Being and Time