Between incense and rhymes, priests and poets. Traces of a philosophical spirituality

Abstract

This paper is a hermeneutical exercise that portraits a dialogue between philosophy and theology based on the category of spirituality. For that reason, it assumes the role of the poet, which is a crucial figure in Heidegger’s later philosophy, and identifies it with the priest, a crucial figure in theology. Proceeding in this way, it is concluded that the poet and the priest are the prophets of the sacred, who contribute to the humanization of land, overcoming any reifying attempt by the technique.