Open AccessThe Knowledge of God: Realism as Natural Theology in Max Scheler’s Phenomenology of Religion
Author(s) -
Anna Piazza
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
scripta theologica/scripta theologica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 2254-6227
pISSN - 0036-9764
DOI - 10.15581/006.53.1.99-119
Subject(s) - realism , objectivism , epistemology , philosophy , phenomenology (philosophy) , critical realism (philosophy of perception) , phenomenon , moral realism , philosophy of religion , philosophical realism , theology , moral psychology
Max Scheler’s phenomenology of religion aimed at a renewed philosophical approach to the problem of God, willing to unify the modern need for a personalization of religion with the traditional objectivism and realism which, ever since the days of Thomas Aquinas, had been basic for Catholicism. For this purpose, Scheler argued for a return to an original level of the experience which could enable a new approach to the religious phenomenon, which could consider it at the level of a «living evidence», answering to the exigence of realism for which phenomenological philosophy was calling, thereby founding an original natural theology.