Thinking Anthropologically about Metaphysics: Impulses for Theological Metaphysics in the Fields of Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Theology

The article deals with the problem of an anthropological understanding of metaphysics in theology and addresses its relevance against a confrontation with an ontological understanding of theological metaphysics. The article format does not allow for a comprehensive treatise but raises the issue as a�principal question that can comprehend the problem’s basic context and aspire to an answer as to whose conclusiveness should be –�in discussion with philosophical�-religious and philosophical�-theological theorems –�rationally autonomous. The text is based on the works of authors whose thinking a) enables an identification of a�"connecting place" for metaphysics in theology, b) raises the possibility of an "anthropological connection" to theological metaphysics, c) helps recognise what is representative of the current state of reflection on this matter in the field of theological thinking, d) and itself elaborates the anthropological viewpoint for theological metaphysical thinking. The thread of content proceeds from a�philosophical�-religious typology of talking about God via a�presentation of the anthropological viewpoint of metaphysics towards the standing of metaphysics in contemporary theology and the search for points of contact in T. Pr�pper’s theological anthropology. The conclusion refers to the possibility of process thought for an anthropologically relevant embedding in theological metaphysics.