Mystery and Astonishment Philosophy of religion in Abraham Heschel

Abstract

The article is inserted in the field of the philosophy of religion and is based on the ideas of Abraham Heschel, a notable philosopher and rabbi who was an adviser to Luther King. Starting from the foundations proposed by Heschel, this paper explores the relationship between the existence of the mystery and the evident limits of human cognition in relation to its investigation of the absolute. In this sense, revealing human smallness allows us to conceive that, more than believing, what is possible is to be amazed. This paper shows that the mystery leads to the evidence of the ineffable. Philosophy judges the limits of religion, but it should not fail to perceive its own limits regarding the experience of the spiritual.