The Continental Philosophy Workshop: Heidegger’s Phenomenology of Religious Life Intensive Seminar, held in Lanzhou University from July 10^th to 11^st, was organized by School of Philosophy and Sociology and co-organized by the Department of Philosophy of the School of Humanities of Tsinghua University, involving more than thirty scholars from ten institutions of higher learning, including Tsinghua University, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhejiang University, Beijing Normal University, Wuhan University and Shandong University, from both online and offline. Associate Professor Qu Xutong from Tsinghua University and Associate Professor Zhang Ruiming from Lanzhou University presided the seminar.

      Six experts of Western philosophy and theology: Associate Professor Cheng Jing, Professor Chen Yuehua, Postdoctoral Fellow Hu Aixin, Lecturer Li Chenglong, Lecturer Gui Lingchang, and Assistant Researcher Li Yi, jointly made a comparison of Augustine’s own writings with Heidegger’s exposition of Augustine’s thought in his Augustine and Neoplatonism. Based on the analysis of German, Latin, ancient Greek, English, and Chinese version, Augustine’s thought was combined with Husserl’s and Marion’s phenomenological and theological idea, in which Heidegger’s understanding of phenomenology was stated. On this basis, a phenomenological hermeneutics was developed through his exceeding in Husserl’s phenomenology, which showed his care of theology. In addition, Associate Professor Qu Xutong discussed the trajectory of Western philosophy-theology from Kant to Nietzsche to Heidegger based on Phenomenology and Theology and Nietzsche’s Antichrist: The Curse of Christianity.

      Under the theme of Heidegger’s phenomenology and hermeneutics, the seminar  made an attempt to build a new form of academic conference and communication mechanism through dialogue between different philosophical positions and various research directions, which is of active significance for the in-depth understanding and development of Heidegger’s ideas in phenomenology, hermeneutics, theology and comparative studies of Chinese and Western thought.