Herausforderung: Wertbegründung: Die Bedeutung des christlichen Existentialismus Gabriel Marcels und der existentiellen Phänomenologie für die Moraltheologie

Moral theology is a subject with a constantly provoking name. It has to face the challenge to explain its self-conception in a new way. Theology and moral explanations seem to be unable to provide any explanations for life anymore – though the human person stays an enigma to himself. Existential experiences cannot be avoided; they decide whether life is experienced as success or as failure, whether it is meaningful or meaningless.
A Christian existentialism, though seemingly self-contradictive, can explain values in the wider horizon of meaning. I prove this thesis by consulting Gabriel Marcel and the existential phenomenology of Edith Stein. This argumentation permits to confront broken meaning with the healing power of revelation.