Without Foundation: Contending Heidegger

By S C SAYLES

n Without Foundation: Contending Heidegger, philosopher-theologian S. C. Sayles confronts Martin Heidegger's monumental Being and Time with the full weight of Reformed theology and the light of divine revelation. What Heidegger called the "clearing of Being," Sayles exposes as the silence that follows when the Word of God is forgotten.

This book forms part of Sayles's acclaimed Veritas Contra Mundum series-"Truth Against the World"-in which the author engages history's great unbelieving philosophers on their own terms and dismantles their systems from within. Here, Heidegger's ontological quest is revealed not as liberation from theology but as theology inverted: the grammar of faith stripped of its God.

Sayles writes with precision, reverence, and prophetic clarity, blending philosophy, metaphysics, and doxology. Through dialogue with Augustine, Calvin, Van Til, and Carl F. H. Henry, he restores the Creator-creature distinction and declares that Being is but the echo of the eternal Logos-the Word made flesh in Christ.

From the forests of Messkirch to the silence of Todtnauberg, Sayles traces Heidegger's lifelong search for ground and meaning, showing how every philosophical path ends where revelation begins: at the Cross, where silence becomes speech and the true foundation is laid.

Profound, disciplined, and luminous, Without Foundation: Contending Heidegger is both an intellectual reckoning and a confession of faith-a book that dares to turn the philosopher's "house of Being" into the temple of the Word, proclaiming that only in the Logos does thought find its home and the world its meaning.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FYY8V3RM
• ISBN13: 9798272510105
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 462 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"