Temporality and philosophical theology in the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl

Lectures on the phenomenology of internal timeconsciousness, such as the investigations of the early period by Husserl, have often become the subject of study and interpretation. As for the methodology of phenomenological description, and for historical and philosophical comparison of the philosophy of time with other theoretical systems of the twentieth century, a diagram of phenomenological time generates a wide range of issues in the analysis of subjectivity. Because the specific phenomenological justification the issue of time does not exist in isolation from other problem fields in the analysis of the transcendental self, and an explication of the total scheme of time-consciousness involves an examination of phenomenological reflection as such, Aleksey Grigorevich Chernaykov indicates the engagement of phenomenology in the interpretive strategies of the description of consciousness as a finite consciousness. Phenomenology treats the ways of givenness of the intentional object, and in this context, under the theological question we do not mean the concept of God as an object of philosophical systematization, but some idea about the sense of divine presence, included in the motivation of all manifestations of consciousness. The question of the relationship between time and eternity in the analysis of subjectivity. In addition, turning towards the sense of the divine presence is phenomenologically related to the constitution of human presence, or rather to the fullness of the presence of reflecting consciousness. Following Held’s interpretation, theology in Husserl’s phenomenology can be considered on the basis of the idea of a “living present” and the principles of its constitution, given the nature of transcendental subjectivity. As early as the Ideas, Husserl mentions the need to review the concepts of God. In later manuscripts, especially those that relate to genetic phenomenology, we find the statement of the problem of rational theology, its possible phenomenological study, an analysis of the status of religious judgments in the consciousness, of universal world teleology (Weltteleologie) and of the boundary problems of metaphysics and teleology. The subject of this paper is to analyze the thematic unity of the phenomenology of time and the theological question. I consider the fact of the emergence of theological difficulties in Husserl, its prerequisites and its theoretical potential. The article consists of three parts. The first part is devoted to disclosing the structure of the ‘living present’ and the experience and perception of time by which the reflecting nature of consciousness and the related theological justification become clear. In the second part I examine one of Husserl’s unpublished manuscripts on theology and ethics, to identify the phenomenological understanding of the tasks of theology as such. And the third part is devoted to the central theme, based on Held and his understanding of theology in a phenomenological method.