McGrath sees here a “hermeneutic circularity” to Heidegger’s argumentation that allows him to overturn Heidegger’s phenomenology which “proceeds in principle, without religious and ethical presupposition”. McGrath pushes back against such prejudice by identifying terms (fallenness, guilt, conscience, temptation, etc) in Heidegger’s vocabulary that, according to McGrath, find their origin in Luther’s, Eckhart’s, and Dun Scotus’ theology. In drawing these connections from theological sources, McGrath attempts to uncover the religious ghosts that allegedly haunt Heidegger’s corpus—something that many others have already done in the field of Heidegger studies.

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