Hegel and religious faith : divided brain, atoning spirit / Andrew Shanks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shanks, Andrew, 1954-

Series:

T & T Clark theology Hegel and religious faith

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophical theology.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831. Religion.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (182 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : T&T Clark, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Hegel is a thinker who haunts modern Christian theology. Although forever being refuted and rejected, he is also forever resurgent as an influence. Here Andrew Shanks diagnoses that rejection, very largely, as a defensive reaction against the sheer, troubling, prophetic open-mindedness of his thought.No doubt there is some justice to the charge that Hegel is religiously one-sided; in particular, as this criticism has been developed by Kierkegaard and, more recently, William Desmond. Against Desmond, however, Shanks argues that the critique itself is no less one-sided.The argument focuses espec

Contents:

Cover; Contents; 1 Desmond versus Hegel: A False Either / Or?; 2 Desmond's Hegel: A Counterfeit Double?; 3 The Ideal of 'Atonement'; 4 Aetiology of Unatonement; 5 Hegel's Gospel; 6 The Spur: Hegel versus Fichte; 7 Two Non-Christian Alternative Strategies; 8 Hegel Sublated; 9 Coda; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613088864

9780567545060

0567545067

9781283088862

128308886X

9780567004369

0567004368

OCLC:

721194839