It is a tragic observation, but the history of the church shows that often the gospel must be dephilosophized. Anthropologically, existential theology is bankrupt. However, the biblical presentation reveals that man's needs arise out of his ethical existence-that is, being a sinner. He is in this state alienated from God, from creation, from his neighbor, and often from his own self-image. This alienation is not present because he is a man in the world, but because he is a sinner before God.
Existential theology is spiritually bankrupt.
It leaves men building on sand. Faith is security where no security can be seen. For I, along with some others, can no longer articulate theological propositions about a prime mover. In the face of expectations that are in some way related to a divine plan for the world or for individuals, we stand mute. We must admit, I think, that we live without any workable philosophy of life, in the formal and technical sense of that phrase.