Abstract

This short piece by Richard Kearney updates for the contemporary conversation the original forward he co-authored with his fellow conference organizer Joseph S. O’Leary. It lays out the themes of the publication of their 1979 Colloquium Heidegger et la question de Dieu. If Heidegger seems to suggest a discussion of theology by engaging Being, which religious tradition pairs with God, he himself was not interested in this correlation. He nevertheless served to open a path for others to follow. Facing up to the crisis of technological alienation, and firmly grounded in the Western tradition’s double belonging to the Hebraic and Hellenic traditions, the contributors of contributors of this original conference take up precisely this task to rethink the question of God.