Continental Philosophy of Religion

This Element presents key features from the writings on religion of twelve philosophers working in or influenced by the continental tradition (Hegel Kierkegaard Nietzsche Heidegger Rosenzweig Tillich Derrida Caputo Levinas Hadot Jantzen and Anderson). It argues for a hybrid methodology which enables transformational religious responses to the problems associated with human existence (the existential problems of meaning suffering and death) to be supported both by reasoned argument and by revelation narrative philosophy and experiential verification.