ABSTRACT
This chapter explains an interesting phenomenon of contemporary Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling studies. Many of today's Schelling scholars are either men of the cloth or philosophers with a strong interest in theology or the philosophy of religion. From his earliest days, Schelling was driven by an emotional urge to give an account of the real world, and to show how it could exist without the self. Schelling devoted his later life to trying to show the congruence between philosophy and revelation. In other words, Schelling's drift away from idealism, and his move to Christian philosophy, were driven by a desire to develop a philosophy based on liberty, both man's and God's. On the other hand, Schelling's relationship with Christianity was far from straightforward. One of the main manifestations of Schelling's realist urge was his interest in Nature Philosophy. Schelling's basic idea in the Nature Philosophy was that all nature should be thought of in terms of 'productivity'.
