Year: 2022
Author: David, Pascal
Heidegger Studies / Heidegger Studien / Etudes Heideggeriennes / Studi Heideggeriani, Vol. 38 (2022), Iss. 1 : pp. 139–156
Abstract
One God Is Not 1 God
Heidegger and the Question of the Unique God
In Heidegger’s Four Notebooks I and II (Black Notebooks 1947 – 1950), edited as volume 99 of the Gesamtausgabe of his writings, the author remarks that “One God, who as a unique God does not tolerate other Gods apart from him is outside divinity ”, the latter obviously referring to the Bible’s passage found in Exodus 34: 14 : “For you shalt worship no other God: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.”. But how does Heidegger come to say that? How does he come to deny the divinity of the one God? This seems to be at first sight a radical criticism of the so-called ‘monotheism’. A major question remains unanswered, nonetheless: the sense in which the Jewish tradition focuses on the “One God”. In this context, “one” is actually not a number but a name. Far from being one of God’s attributes, it is God’s Name. It is a common ground that Heidegger had no access to the Hebrew text of the Bible, a biased situation which leads us to narrow-minded consequences regarding the ‘Old Testament’, where God is frequently called Elohim, i. e. a plural. Is the Jewish God exclusive, or rather Heidegger’s conception of Judaism restrictive? That is the question.
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Journal Article Details
Publisher Name: Global Science Press
Language: German
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3790/heist.38.1.139
Heidegger Studies / Heidegger Studien / Etudes Heideggeriennes / Studi Heideggeriani, Vol. 38 (2022), Iss. 1 : pp. 139–156
Published online: 2022-01
AMS Subject Headings: Duncker & Humblot
Copyright: COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press
Pages: 18
Keywords: God Divine One-Unicity Uniqueness Judaism Christ Christianity Medieval theology “the last God”.
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Pascal David : Un Dieu n'est pas 1 dieu. Heidegger et la question du Dieu unique | 139 | ||
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Bibliograpie | 155 | ||
Abstract | 156 | ||
One God Is Not 1 God Heidegger and the Question of the Unique God | 156 |