Hegel: Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion: Volume III: The Consummate Religion / Edition 1

by Peter C. Hodgson

Overview

The Hegel Lectures Series
Series Editor: Peter C. Hodgson

Hegel's lectures have had as great a historical impact as the works he himself published. Important elements of his system are elaborated only in the lectures, especially those given in Berlin during the last decade of his life. The original editors conflated materials from different sources and dates, obscuring the development and logic of Hegel's thought. The Hegel Lectures series is based on a selection of extant and recently discovered transcripts and manuscripts. Lectures from specific years are reconstructed so that the structure of Hegel's argument can be followed. Each volume presents an accurate new translation accompanied by an editorial introduction and annotations on the text, which make possible the identification of Hegel's many allusions and sources.

Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion represent the final and in some ways the decisive element of his entire philosophical system. His conception and execution of the lectures differed significantly on each of the occasions he delivered them, in 1821, 1824, 1827, and 1831. The older editions introduced insoluble problems by conflating these materials into an editorially constructed text. The present volumes establish a critical edition by separating the series of lectures and presenting them as independent units on the basis of a complete re-editing of the sources by Walter Jaeschke. The English translation has been prepared by a team consisting of Robert F. Brown, Peter C. Hodgson, and J. Michael Stewart, with the assistance of H. S. Harris. Now widely recognized as the definitive English edition, it is being reissued by Oxford in the Hegel Lectures Series. The three volumes include editorial introductions, critical annotations on the text, textual variants, and tables, bibliography, and glossary.

"The Consummate Religion" is Hegel's name for Christianity, which he also designates "the Revelatory Religion". Here he offers a speculative interpretation of major Christian doctrines: the Trinity, creation, humanity, estrangement and evil, Christ, the Spirit, the spiritual community, church and world. These interpretations have had a powerful and controversial impact on modern theology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199283552
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/20/2008
Series:	Hegel Lectures , #3
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	444
Product dimensions:	9.07(w) x 6.35(h) x 0.96(d)

Table of Contents

Abbreviations, Signs, and Symbols     ix
Frequently Cited Works     xiii
Editorial Introduction     1
Text, Title, and Translation     1
The Structure and Development of "The Consummate Religion"     9
Hegel's Lecture Manuscript     10
The Lectures of 1824     24
The Lectures of 1827     36
The Lectures of 1831     47
Comparative Analysis of the Structure of "The Consummate Religion"     54
The Consummate Religion
Hegel's Lecture Manuscript     61
Introduction     61
Definition of This Religion     61
Characteristics of This Religion     63
Abstract Concept     65
Concrete Representation     73
The Idea In and For Itself: The Triune God     77
The Idea in Diremption: Creation and Preservation of the Natural World     86
Appearance of the Idea in Finite Spirit: Estrangement, Redemption, and Reconciliation     90
Estrangement: Natural Humanity     92
Redemption and Reconciliation: Christ     109
Community, Cultus     133
Standpoint of the Community in General     133
The Origin of the Community     142
The Being of theCommunity; the Cultus     149
The Passing Away of the Community     158
The Lectures of 1824     163
Introduction     163
The Consummate Religion     163
The Revelatory Religion     170
The Religion of Truth and Freedom     171
Relation to Preceding Religions     172
The Metaphysical Concept of God     173
The Development of the Idea of God     185
The First Element: The Idea of God In and For Itself     189
The Second Element: Representation, Appearance     198
Differentiation     198
Differentiation within the Divine Life and in the World     198
Natural Humanity     201
Knowledge, Estrangement, and Evil     205
The Story of the Fall     207
Reconciliation     211
The Idea of Reconciliation and Its Appearance in a Single Individual     211
The Historical, Sensible Presence of Christ     216
The Death of Christ and the Transition to Spiritual Presence     219
The Third Element: Community, Spirit     223
The Origin of the Community     224
The Subsistence of the Community     233
The Realization of Faith      237
The Lectures of 1827     249
Introduction     249
Definition of This Religion     249
The Positivity and Spirituality of This Religion     251
Survey of Previous Developments     262
Division of the Subject     271
The First Element: The Idea of God In and For Itself     275
The Second Element: Representation, Appearance     290
Differentiation     290
Differentiation within the Divine Life and in the World     290
Natural Humanity     295
The Story of the Fall     300
Knowledge, Estrangement, and Evil     304
Reconciliation     310
The Idea of Reconciliation and Its Appearance in a Single Individual     310
The Historical, Sensible Presence of Christ     316
The Death of Christ and the Transition to Spiritual Presence     322
The Third Element: Community, Spirit     328
The Origin of the Community     330
The Subsistence of the Community     333
The Realization of the Spirituality of the Community     339
Appendixes
The Ontological Proof According to the Lectures of 1831     351
Excerpts by David Friedrich Strauss from a Transcript of the Lectures of 1831      359
Loose Sheets Relating to Hegel's Lecture Manuscript     375
Fragments from the Michelet Transcripts     387
Pagination of the Original Sources     389
Glossary     399
Index     409