The religion in the light of Heidegger's hermeneutic phenomenology

This article aims to present religion in the light of Heidegger's hermeneutic phenomenology, based on the faktische Lebenserfahrung developed by Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) in the early writings of its work. To achieve this goal, three works of the German philosopher will be taken into account: Phanomenologie des Religiosen Lebens from 1920-21, Phanomenologische Interpretationen zu Aristoteles de 1921-22 e Ontologie. Hermeutik der Faktizitat de 1923. From these works, it will be inferred concepts of phenomenology, hermeneutics and facticity, that underlie other important concepts such as world, history, phenomenon and experience. Afterwards, the way how this philosopher develops these concepts in the analysis of the Christian religion will be presented through three Christian experiments: the Pauline letters to the Galatians and Thessalonians, the Book X of Augustine Confessions and the medieval mysticism. Finally, this article points out that religion is religious experience developed through factual life, with all its tension, anxieties and projections. Religion is then the experience of the divine in the factual locus of the life in which the existence finds its own meaning.