Includes bibliographical references.

Preliminary Material -- A “Genuinely Religiously Orientated Personality”: Martin Heidegger and the Religious and Theological Origins of his Philosophy / Holger Zaborowski -- Traces of Heidegger’s Religious Struggle in his Phenomenology of Religious Life / Alfred Denker -- Religion, Theology and Philosophy on the Way to Being and Time: Heidegger, Dilthey and Early Christianity / István M. Fehér -- Heidegger and the Ascesis of Thought / Franco Volpi -- Theology and the Historicity of Faith in the Perspective of the Young Martin Heidegger / Jeffrey Andrew Barash -- A Historical Note on Heidegger’s Relationship to Ernst Troeltsch / Sylvain Camilleri -- Heidegger’s Methodological Principles for Understanding Religious Phenomena / Jean Greisch -- Heidegger’s Atheology: The Possibility of Unbelief / Andrzej Wierciński -- Formal Indication, Irony, and the Risk of Saying Nothing / S. J. McGrath -- Philosophia Crucis: The Influence of Paul on Heidegger’s Phenomenology / Jaromir Brejdak -- The End of Time: Temporality in Paul’s Letters to the Thessalonians / Graeme Nicholson -- Present History: Reflections on Martin Heidegger’s Approach to Early Christianity / Gerhard Ruff -- The Poetics of World: Origins of Poetic Theory in Heidegger’s Phenomenology of Religious Life / Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei -- Truth and Temptation: Confessions and Existential Analysis / Daniel Dahlstrom -- Memory and Temptation: Heidegger Reads Book X of Augustine’s Confessions / Costantino Esposito -- Notes for a Work on the ‘Phenomenology of Religious Life’ (1916-19) / Theodore Kisiel -- The Theological Architecture of the Religious Life-World according to Heidegger’s Proto-Phenomenology of Religion (1916-1919) / Sylvain Camilleri -- Choosing a Hero: Heidegger’s Conception of Authentic Life in Relation to Early Christianity / Dermot Moran.

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In the academic year 1920-1921 at the University of Freiburg, Martin Heidegger gave a series of extraordinary lectures on the phenomenological significance of the religious thought of St. Paul and St. Augustine. The publication of these lectures in 1995 settled a long disputed question, the decisive role played by Christian theology in the development of Heidegger’s philosophy. The lectures present a special challenge to readers of Heidegger and theology alike. Experimenting with language and drawing upon a wide range of now obscure authors, Heidegger is finding his way to Being and Time through the labyrinth of his Catholic past and his increasing fascination with Protestant theology. A Companion to Heidegger's Phenomenology of Religious Life is written by an international team of Heidegger specialists.