ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the similarities between Viktor Frankl's Logotherapy and Martin Luther's concepts of Vocation and the Theology of the Cross. The search for meaning for Frankl finds its expression in the vocation toward the neighbor of Luther. An attempt is made to show that the psychological and philosophical/ religious modes of thought can be complementary and even support one another in their endeavor to search for meaning in life. Frankl was influenced by other existentialist philosophers, namely Husserl and Martin Heidegger, and their concepts and ideas of the existence of the human person. Beginning with the "being" of a person in opposition to "what" or "who" a person is, moves the question of existence within a person and to the "is" of a person instead of the outer nature or essence of a person.
