An introduction to Hegel's lectures on the philosophy of religion : the issue of religious content in the enlightenment and romanticism / Jon Stewart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stewart, Jon, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion--Philosophy.

Religion.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich.

Vorlesungen über die Philosophie der Religion (Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2022.

Summary:

This work gives a basic introduction to Hegel's religious thinking by seeing it against the backdrop of the main religious trends in his own day that he responded to.

Contents:

Cover

An Introduction to Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion: The Issue of Religious Content in the Enlightenment and Romanticism

Copyright

Acknowledgements

Contents

List of Illustrations

Abbreviations of Primary Texts

Introduction

0.1 Religion and Hegel's View of Systematic Philosophy

0.2 Hegel's Published Corpus and System

0.3 The First Collected Works Edition: The Publication of the Lectures

0.4 A Problem with Hegel's Historical Account

0.5 The Editions of Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion

0.6 The Theses of the Present Study

1: The Enlightenment's Criticism of Religion: Theology

1.1 The Crisis with the Emergence of the Sciences

1.2 Deism

1.3 Voltaire: A Rational Understanding of Religion

1.4 Reimarus: The Crisis of Biblical Studies

2: The Enlightenment's Criticism of Religion: Philosophy

2.1 Lessing: The Crisis of History

2.2 Hume: Criticism of the Proofs of God's Existence

2.3 Kant: The Limits of Reason and the Moral Foundation of Religion

2.4 Hegel's Criticism of Kant

2.5 Hegel and the Enlightenment

3: Romanticism: The Retreat to Subjectivity

3.1 Rousseau: Conscience and the Pure Heart

3.2 Jacobi: Discursive Knowledge and Immediate Certainty

3.3 Hegel's Criticism of Jacobi

3.4 Schleiermacher: Intuition and Immediate Feeling

3.5 Hegel's Criticism of Schleiermacher

3.6 The Romantics and the Forms of Subjectivity

3.7 Hegel's Philosophy of Religion and Romanticism

4: Hegel's Approach and Method

4.1 The Criticism of the Enlightenment: Ignorance of the Divine

4.2 The Criticism of Romanticism: The Split between Thinking and Feeling

4.3 The Problem of Content

4.4 The Relation of Philosophy to Religion: Concepts and Picture-thinking

4.5 The Goal of Seeing the Rational in Religion.

4.6 The Determination of Objectivity: The Internal Criterion

4.7 Faith and Knowledge

5: Forerunners of the Christian Conception of the Divine: Judaism and Greco-Roman Polytheism

5.1 Judaism: God as Creator

5.2 The Greek Demigods or Heroes

5.3 The Oracle and the Interpretation of Nature

5.4 The Divine and the Work of Art: Sculpture

5.5 The Divinity of the Roman Emperor

5.6 Alienation, Anxiety, and the Need for Reconciliation

6: Hegel's Philosophical Interpretation of Christianity

6.1 Christianity and Freedom

6.2 The Revelation

6.3 Miracles

6.4 The Death of Christ

6.5 The Holy Spirit

6.6 The Trinity

6.7 Christianity and Philosophical Knowing

6.8 The Rise of Protestantism

7: The Omission of Islam

7.1 Islamic Studies in Hegel's Time and Hegel's Sources

7.2 The Concept of Islam

7.3 The Shortcoming of the Concept

7.4 The Positive Role of Islam in the Development of Freedom and History

8: The Reception of Hegel's Philosophy of Religion

8.1 The Hegelian Schools

8.2 The Immortality Debate

8.3 The Pantheism Debate or the Question of a Personal God

8.4 The Debate about Christology

8.5 Reflections on the Traditional Designations

8.6 Hegel as a Supporter or Critic of Religion and Christianity

9: The Relevance of Hegel's Philosophy of Religion Today

9.1 The Heirs of the Enlightenment Today

9.2 The Heirs of Romanticism Today

9.3 Hegel and Religious Pluralism

9.4 Evidence for a More Tolerant, Pluralistic Hegel

9.5 The Question of Truth at Earlier Stages of Religious Development

9.6 Hegel and Comparative Theology

Bibliography

Works on Hegel's Philosophy of Religion

Primary Texts

Other Works

Index of Names

Index of Subjects.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Stewart, Jon An Introduction to Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion

ISBN:

0-19-265456-X

0-19-192554-3

0-19-265457-8

OCLC:

1292355063