Two Types of Dialogical Philosophical Theology: Richard Schaeffler and Jolana Poláková

This study aims to present the two forms of dialogical philosophical theology developed by Richard Schaeffler and Jolana Poláková. Schaeffler was a German philosopher who developed a transcendental-philosophical way of thinking about God. Poláková is a Czech philosopher, a representative of dialogical personalism. Her thinking seeks to grasp the responsive relationship of the human being to God and thus to conceive a dialogical type of philosophical theology. In Schaeffler’s case, I believe we can speak of an implicit dialogical philosophical theology based on transcendental thinking and dialogical Erfahrungstheorie, and in Poláková’s case, of an explicit dialogical philosophical theology. The study demonstrates the methods and possibilities of philosophical theology outside the circle of analytic philosophy – transcendental and dialogical approaches.