Cover -- Contents -- Translators' Foreword -- INTRODUCTION TO THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF RELIGION: Winter Semester 1920-21 -- PART ONE: Methodological Introduction Philosophy, Factical Life Experience, and the Phenomenology of Religion -- Chapter One: The Formation of Philosophical Concepts and Factical Life Experience -- 1. The Peculiarity of Philosophical Concepts -- 2. On the Title of the Lecture Course -- 3. Factical Life Experience as the Point of Departure -- 4. Taking-Cognizance-of -- Chapter Two: Current Tendencies of the Philosophy of Religion -- 5. Troeltsch's Philosophy of Religion -- a) Psychology -- b) Epistemology -- c) Philosophy of History -- d) Metaphysics -- 6. Critical Observations -- Chapter Three: The Phenomenon of the Historical -- 7. The Historical as Core Phenomenon -- a) "Historical Thinking" -- b) The Concept of the Historical -- c) The Historical in Factical Life Experience -- 8. The Struggle of Life against the Historical -- a) The Platonic Way -- b) Radical Self-Extradition -- c) Compromise between the Two Positions -- 9. Tendencies-to-Secure -- a) The Relation of the Tendency-to-Secure -- b) The Sense of the Historical Itself -- c) Does the Securing Suffice? -- 10. The Concern of Factical Dasein -- Chapter Four: Formalization and Formal Indication -- 11. The General Sense of "Historical" -- 12. Generalization and Formalization -- 13. The "Formal Indication" -- PART TWO: Phenomenological Explication of Concrete Religious Phenomena in Connection with the Letters of Paul -- Chapter One: Phenomenological Interpretation of the Letters to the Galatians -- 14. Introduction -- 15. Some Remarks on the Text -- 16. The Fundamental Posture of Paul -- Chapter Two: Task and Object of the Philosophy of Religion -- 17. Phenomenological Understanding.

18. Phenomenology of Religion and the History of Religion -- 19. Basic Determinations of Primordial Christian Religiosity -- 20. The Phenomenon of Proclamation -- 21. Foreconceptions of the Study -- 22. The Schema of Phenomenological Explication -- Chapter Three: Phenomenological Explication of the First Letter to the Thessalonians -- 23. Methodological Difficulties -- 24. The "Situation" -- 25. The "Having-Become" of the Thessalonians -- 26. The Expectation of the Parousia -- Chapter Four: The Second Letter to the Thessalonians -- 27. Anticipation of the Parousia in the Second Letter to the Thessalonians -- 28. The Proclamation of the Antichrist -- 29. Dogma and the Complex of Enactment -- Chapter Five: Characteristics of Early Christian Life Experience -- 30. Factical Life Experience and Proclamation -- 31. The Relational Sense of Primordial Christian Religiosity -- 32. Christian Facticity as Enactment -- 33. The Complex of Enactment as "Knowledge" -- APPENDIX: Notes and Sketches on the Lecture -- Letter to the Galatians [on 16] -- Religious Experience and Explication [on 17] -- Methodological Considerations regarding Paul (I) [on 18 and 19] -- Methodological Considerations regarding Paul (II) [on 20 and 21] -- Methodological Considerations regarding Paul (III) [on 22] -- The Hermeneutical Foreconceptions [on 22] -- Phenomenology of Pauline Proclamation (I) (I Thess.) [on 23-26] -- Phenomenology of Pauline Proclamation (II) (I Thess.) [on 23-26] -- Phenomenology of Pauline Proclamation (III) (I Thess.) [on 23-26] -- Phenomenology of Pauline Proclamation (IV) [on 23-26] -- Phenomenology of Pauline Proclamation (V) [on 23-26] -- Enactmental-Historical Understanding [on 24] -- Eschatology I (I Thess.) [on 26] -- Eschatology II (I Thess.) [on 26].

Eschatology III (II Thess.) [on 27 and 28] -- Eschatology IV (II Thess.) [on 28 and 29] -- AUGUSTINE AND NEO-PLATONISM: Summer Semester 1921 -- INTRODUCTORY PART: Interpretations of Augustine -- 1. Ernst Troeltsch's Interpretation of Augustine -- 2. Adolf von Harnack's Interpretation of Augustine -- 3. Wilhelm Dilthey's Interpretation of Augustine -- 4. The Problem of Historical Objectivity -- 5. A Discussion of the Three Interpretations of Augustine according to Their Sense of Access -- 6. A Discussion of the Interpretations of Augustine according to Their Motivational Basis for the Starting Point and the Enactment of Access -- a) The Motivational Centers of the Three Interpretations -- b) Demarcation from Object-Historical Studies -- c) Demarcation from Historical-Typological Studies -- MAIN PART: Phenomenological Interpretation of Confessions -- Book X -- 7. Preparations for the Interpretation -- a) Augustine's Retractions of the Confessions -- b) The Grouping of the Chapters -- 8. The Introduction to Book X. Chapters 1-7 -- a) The Motif of confiteri before God and the People -- b) Knowledge of Oneself -- c) The Objecthood of God -- d) The Essence of the Soul -- 9. The memoria. Chapters 8-19 -- a) Astonishment at memoria -- b) Sensuous Objects -- c) Nonsensuous Objects -- d) The discere and Theoretical Acts -- e) The Affects and Their Manner of Givenness -- f) Ipse mihi occurro -- g) The Aporia regarding oblivio -- h) What Does It Mean to Search? -- 10. Of the beata vita. Chapters 20-23 -- a) The How of Having beata vita -- b) The gaudium de veritate -- c) Veritas in the Direction of Falling -- 11. The How of Questioning and Hearing. Chapters 24-27 -- 12. The curare (Being Concerned) as the Basic Character of Factical Life. Chapters 28 and 29 -- a) The Dispersion of Life -- b) The Conflict of Life.

13. The First Form of tentatio: concupiscentia carnis. Chapters 30-34 -- a) The Three Directions of the Possibility of Defluxion -- b) The Problem of the "I am" -- c) Voluptas -- d) Illecebra odorum -- e) Voluptas aurium -- f) Voluptas oculorum -- g) Operatores et sectatores pulchritudinum exteriorum -- 14. The Second Form of tentatio: concupiscentia oculorum. Chapter 35 -- a) Videre in carne and videre per carnem -- b) The Curious Looking-about-Oneself in the World -- 15. The Third Form of tentatio: ambitio saeculi. Chapters 36-38 -- a) A Comparison of the First Two Forms of Temptation -- b) Timeri velle and amari velle -- c) Amor laudis -- d) The Genuine Direction of placere -- 16. Self-importance. Chapter 39 -- 17. Molestia-the Facticity of Life -- a) The How of the Being of Life -- b) Molestia-the Endangerment of Having-of-Oneself -- APPENDIX I: Notes and Sketches for the Lecture Course -- Augustine, "Confessiones"-"confiteri," "interpretari" [on 7 b] -- On the Destruction of Confessiones X [on 7 b] -- Enactmental Complex of the Question [on 8 b] -- Tentatio [on 12 a] -- [Oneri mihi sum] [on 12 a] -- [on 13 a] -- Tentatio [on 13 a, b] -- The Phenomenon of tentatio [on 13 c] -- Light [on 13 f] -- Deus lux [on 13 g] -- Tentatio: in carne-per carnem [on 14 a] -- [A Comparison of the Three Forms of tentatio] [on 15 a] -- Axiologization [on 15 b-d] -- [Agnoscere ordinem] [on 15 c] -- [on 15 c] -- [Four Groups of Problems] -- Sin -- Axiologization [on 17] -- [Molestia] [on 17] -- [Exploratio] -- [Anxiety] -- [The Counter-Expected, the Temptation, the Appeal] -- On the Destruction of Plotinus -- APPENDIX II: Supplements from the Notes of Oskar Becker -- 1. Continentia [Supplement to 12 a] -- 2. Uti and frui [Supplement to 12 b] -- 3. Tentatio [Supplement following 12 b].

4. The confiteri and the Concept of Sin [Supplement following 13 b] -- 5. Augustine's Position on Art ("De Musica") [Supplement following 13 e] -- 6. Videre (lucem) deum [Supplement following 13 g] -- 7. Intermediary Consideration of timor castus [Supplement following 16] -- 8. The Being of the Self [Concluding Part of Lecture] -- THE PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF MEDIEVAL MYSTICISM: [Outlines and Sketches for a Lecture, Not Held, 1918-1919] -- The Philosophical Foundations of Medieval Mysticism -- Mysticism in the Middle Ages -- Mysticism (Directives) -- Construction (Starting Points) -- Faith and Knowledge -- Irrationalism -- Historical Pre-givenness and the Finding of Essence -- [Religious Phenomena] -- The Religious a priori -- Irrationality in Meister Eckhart -- On Schleiermacher's Second Address "On the Essence of Religion" -- Phenomenology of Religious Experience and of Religion -- The Absolute -- Hegel's Original, Earliest Position on Religion-and Consequences -- Problems -- Faith -- Piety-Faith -- On Schleiermacher, "Christian Faith"-and Phenomenology of Religion in General -- The Holy -- On the Sermones Bernardi in canticum canticorum (Serm. III.) -- Afterword of the Editors of the Lecture Course Winter Semester 1920-21 -- Afterword of the Editor of the Lecture Course Summer Semester 1921 and of the Outlines and Sketches 1918-19 -- Glossary of Key Terms.