"Theology is seeking a more primordial interpretation of man's Being towards God, prescribed by the meaning of faith itself and remaining within it. It is slowly beginning to understand once more Luther's insight that the 'foundation' on which its system of dogma rests has not arisen from an inquiry in which faith is primary, and that conceptually this 'foundation' not only is inadequate for the problematic of theology, but conceals and distorts it." - Heidegger
Theology is an investigative venture into understanding our 'towards God' entity. This is necessarily simultaneously an 'investigative' entity if theology is necessary of a 'towards God' entity, and so either the theologian is not of the 'towards God' entity or the 'towards God' entity is investigative. So therefore, either the theologian's Being towards God is not actually towards God (concealed and distorted) because theology is necessary of the Being towards God, but is not of the nature of the entity that is towards God, or the theologian's Being towards God is necessary of a Being towards God. Faith, though, isn't investigative and if theological pursuit is to be founded upon understanding what the nature of the man who is faithful, the Being towards God, then to be theological and be the Being towards God, faith must be investigative, but it isn't. Theology isn't towards God, dogma is not towards God, the concept of God is not towards God, God is not towards God. Faith never meant to be towards God. God turned around and claimed it, but that God was investigation and investigation was the pursuit of the man who's Being wasn't actually towards God. God has always been an incident of the investigation by one's Being.
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