Being-Placed before God. Reading the Early Heidegger's Phenomenology of Liturgy with Jean-Yves Lacoste

JORGE LUIS ROGGERO

Religions

MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

Año: 2021 vol. 12 p. 1 - 15

This article aims to demonstrate, by means of a comparison with Lacoste?s proposal, thatwe can find a particular phenomenology of liturgy in the early Heidegger?s phenomenology ofreligion, centered in the structure of ?being-placed before God?. His examination of this structuremanages to go deeper than Lacoste in order to account for the essence of human existence. Withthis purpose in mind, in the first section of the article I will the present the basic features of theliturgical experience, as it is introduced in Experience and the Absolute. In the second section, I willanalyze the early Heidegger?s phenomenology of religion and its interpretation of Christian facticallife experience. Finally, in the third section, I will bring the insights from both sections together toestablish the particularities of Heidegger?s phenomenology of liturgy.