The Last God

Early and late, Heidegger makes no secret of his rejection of metaphysical approaches to the divinity. He dismisses "Christian philosophy" as a "wooden iron" and, in the course of demonstrating the onto-theological character of metaphysics, observes that one can neither pray nor fall down on one's knees before the God of philosophy.

In the Contributions he goes even further, refusing to look for God among beings, decrying the effort as destructive of anything divine. Nor is God to be identified with historical being as the appropriating event since God is in need of the latter no less than humans are. Historical being is the "between" in which "Gods and humans know each other, i.e., decide where they belong."

--Daniel O. Dahlstrom, The Heidegger Dictionary, 118-119.