The role of the “theological origin” in Martin Heidegger’s philosophy

The article analyzes the influence of the «theological origin» of Heidegger’s philosophizing on his philosophy. Even at the very beginning of the creative path of the German philosopher, there is a confrontation «within» the religious issues of his early works. In early works Heidegger contrasts the «primordial religious feeling» with the scholastic understanding of God as the «supertemporal» guarantor of thought, the opposition to which persists in the thinker's later works. The article shows how this confrontation transforms into Heidegger's philosophical problematics, which raises the question of the religious motivation of some elements and themes of his philosophizing. The analysis is carried out through the consideration of the following aspects: the genesis of religious issues in Heidegger's early works and the departure from it during the writing of «Being and Time», the path to phenomenology through the study of the «phenomenology of religious consciousness», the reasons for the criticism of theology as part of metaphysics, the boundaries of the «methodological atheism of philosophy», the influence of the «theological origin» on Heidegger's later philosophy. It is shown how the search for pre-theoretical experience, the comprehension of historicity and «kairological» time arise in line with the religious searches of early Heidegger and become an integral part of his works. During the analysis of these aspects, it is explained how the «theological source» influenced the problems of the works of the late Heidegger and why the appeal to phenomenological philosophy on the one hand, and to the experience of medieval mysticism, the texts of early Luther and early Christians, on the other, proceeded from a single need for thought to go beyond the «scholastic conceptuality». The analysis concludes that Heidegger's choice was not so much between philosophy and religious experience as between «authentic» and «non-authentic» forms of philosophy and religious experience.