O problema de Deus em Bernhard Welte: da experiência do nada ao Deus pessoal e divino

Abstract

The present research intends to approach the way by which Bernhard Welte faces the problem of God in the contemporaneity. In this sense, we will begin our investigation with a succinct historical-philosophical contextualization about this question in the context of the philosopher's thought, that is, we will search to analyze how the relation and, consequently, the influx of Heidegger's philosophy in the weltinian reflection is articulated. Having done this, we will turn our attention to the two paths through of which Welte seeks to reach God in order to deal with his demonstration of the reality of the absolute mystery. Starting from this demonstration, we will come to the discussion about the presuppositions that concern them in a critical comparison with the traditional proofs of the existence of God in the Medieval and his critique by Kant. Having clarified such assumptions, we shall discuss the further demonstration made by our author of the personality and divinity of the absolute mystery. At this point in our investigative itinerary, we will analyze the way in which Welte solves the question of phenomenological difference and the relevance of his enterprise to the scope of competence relative to strictly philosophical thinking. With a view to achieving this objective, we shall approach the resumption of concepts of causality and analogy in Welte's thinking, the critique of theology to his way of thinking, and the fact that Heidegger, his master, does not regard him as a philosopher, but as theologian. It is therefore a question of showing, through Weltinian perquisition, the urgency and actuality of the question of God to contemporary philosophical thought and how the reflection of our author contributes in a paradigmatic way to this debate in the exclusive sphere of philosophy.