christian sommer
More primordial than the subsistance of theology and philosophy is the
existence of theologians and philosophers, and more primordial than
the being-theologian and being-philosopher is for both the being-
human [das Menschsein]. That’s why the difference between theology
and philosophy will be clarified only on the common ground of
anthropology i.e. by going back to that which at the same time lets
eventually an unfaithful human being become a Christian and lets
eventually a faithful Christian become a philosopher.^37
- Karl Löwith, “Phänomenologische Ontologie und protestantische Theologie”
[1930] in Sämtliche Schriften, 3, Stuttgart: Metzler, 1985, 31f.
