Abstract
<jats:p>The purpose of this article is to study the directions and depth of the influence of Kurt Gödel’s logical-mathematical and metaphysical heritage on philosophical and theological thought. As a result of studying the topic, the fundamental and multifaceted influence of the scientist’s ideas on philosophical and theological consciousness was established. It was reflected in the intention of representatives of analytical philosophy to reconsider the relationship between formalized knowledge, intuition and reason. For them, the methodological value of Kurt Gödel’s ideas consisted in his establishment of the limits of rational cognition and the possibilities of proof. In his approaches, this followed from the incompleteness theorem, where the argumented impossibility of proving some true propositions within a specific system was stated, moreover, methodologically significant for philosophers was that the distinction between truth and derivation was clearly shown, it was argued that truth is broader than proof and is not reducible to it. Kurt Gödel’s commitment to mathematical Platonism in new cultural conditions revitalized the idea of the existence of metalevels in the structure of knowledge that are not subject to formalization. For theology, the reception of the thinker’s creative heritage provided new creative impulses in the search for constructive relations between faith and reason, on the way to clarifying the boundaries of rationality in explaining divine truths, in the matter of actualizing the values of Revelation. In addition, Kurt Gödel’s logical rigor in substantiating the ontological proof opened up wide opportunities for systematic theology on the way to actualizing the classical arguments for the existence of God. These ideas, in their broadest sense, limited the claims of scientism to an exhaustive explanation of the world around us, leaving room for metaphysical and theological truths</jats:p>