 Contemporary scholarship on ontotheology is divided between those who accept Heidegger’s analysis of the problem of ontotheology and continue his efforts at “overcoming ontotheology,” and those who are rethinking Heidegger's view and thus re-imagining the relationship between philosophy and theology and reconfiguring the conditions for philosophical theology.With regard to the latter, which takes its cue from Jacques Derrida's statement that "with or without the word being, Heidegger wrote a theology with and without God.He did what he said it would be necessary to avoid doing.