Karl Jaspers already speaks in The spiritual situation of the time, 1931) of a “spiritual homelessness” that can arise from the collapse of traditional worldviews. At the same time, Martin Heidegger writes, among other things, in Introduction to Metaphysics(1935/1953): “Homelessness is becoming the fate of the world. […] It means that being itself has been lost, that transcendence no longer has a place.” The Austrian literary scholar Nikolaus Matuschek later took up the expression, especially in his essay collection "Metaphysical Homelessness: Contributions to the Modern State of the Mind" (Vienna, 1966). There, the concept becomes a cultural-philosophical guiding principle for the crisis of meaning in modernity.
However, this topic is repeatedly addressed in the Bible. For example, in Isaiah 1:3: “The ox knows its owner and the donkey its master’s crib, but Israel does not know, and my people do not understand.”
The value and rule system of [the following] provides a timelessly valid and intellectually and psychologically sound framework for everyday life. Sermon on the Mount Jesus: “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who…” House on a rock built” (Matthew 7:24).
“Therefore everyone who hears any of these words of mine and puts them into practice, I will compare him to a wise man who built his house on the rock; and the rain came down, and the streams rose, and the winds blew and raged against that house; yet it did not fall, because it was on the rock.” founded." (Mt 7:24-25)
The “House on the Rock” symbolizes the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount, which is analogous to the symbolism of the Holy City (cf. “Apocalypse”). four categories It is based on the Great Flood, that is the ocean of fear…
