title: Hegel on the need for transformation historical forms of Christianity
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metadata.value: Muravev, Andrei N.
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metadata.value: 2023-10-06T12:38:47Z
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metadata.value: 2023-10-06T12:38:47Z
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metadata.value: 2022
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metadata.value: Muravev A. N. Hegel on the need for transformation historical forms of Christianity. Philosophy of the History of Philosophy, 2022, vol. 3, рр. 210–225. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu34.2022.114 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu34.2022.114
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/44122
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metadata.value: The article is devoted to Hegel’s contribution to solving the problem of the further
  development of Christianity and the religious spirit in general. Although the philosopher
  himself did not directly state the need for such a development anywhere,
  the article shows that the entire content of Hegel’s “Lectures on the Philosophy of
  Religion” speaks precisely about it. To demonstrate this, the author of the article
  analyzes, firstly, the final part of the last lecture of the named course and, secondly,
  traces the lecturer’s train of thought leading to this conclusion. From certain religions
  Hegel proceeds to the absolute religion, as he calls Christianity, interpreted by
  him as the result of the historical development of the religious spirit. The author of
  the article, following Hegel, identifies and examines the philosophical prerequisites and results of the formation of the Christian doctrine. The philosophical principle
  of absolute religion laid down by ancient thought, he argues, in the course of the
  history of Christianity turns into its philosophical outcome — into the philosophical
  removal of the revealed religion of representation into the concept of the religion of
  truth and freedom. In patristics, the immediate reasonableness of the philosophical
  teaching of the Neoplatonists, who summarized ancient philosophy as a whole, made
  itself felt. Medieval scholasticism undertook a rational exposition of the reasonable
  content of the most important Christian dogmas. The reason, strengthened in the
  scholastic school, initiated the Reformation of Catholic Christianity. The Enlightenment
  declared itself a resolute opponent of any, including religious, superstitions,
  identifying with them the reasonable content of the historical form of Christianity.
  Classical German philosophy flourished on the premises created by the Reformation
  and the Enlightenment. In Kant’s critical philosophy and Fichte’s science, she overcame
  the intellectual abstraction of a transcendent god. The possibility of transforming
  the historical form of Christianity into an absolute religion of truth and freedom
  from the formal possibility originally inherent in it became a real possibility due
  to the fact that in Hegel’s works the philosophical negation of the denial by the enlightened
  mind of the religious idea of God into the concept of an absolute idea was
  realized. The processing of the ideological content of the historical form of Christianity
  into the logical form of philosophy allowed Hegel to devote the third part of
  his lectures on the philosophy of religion to a detailed explication of the philosophical
  idea of absolute religion, understood as a concrete identity of the concept of the
  idea of God and the process of realization of this concept in the world, man and the
  spirit of a religious community. This allows the philosopher to discover the inner
  necessity of the transformation of historical Christianity. According to Hegel, only
  philosophy, which through rational thinking restores the true content of the form of
  religious representation in the concept, can save the Christian community from its
  progressive decomposition. The article concludes with the conclusion that Hegel’s
  interpretation of Christianity as an absolute religion of truth and freedom remains
  to this day the only detailed philosophical exposition of the true Christian faith, as it
  was articulated by a Lutheran of the first third of the 19th century, who understood
  what he believes in.
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metadata.value: The reported study was funded by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research,
  project no. 20-011-00746 A “A Philosophy and theology in German classical idealism:
  A history of interaction and interpenetration”.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Philosophy of the History of Philosophy;Volume 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Hegel
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: logical philosophy
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: absolute religion
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: theology
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: representation
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: reason
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: intelligence
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metadata.value: Hegel on the need for transformation historical forms of Christianity
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metadata.value: Article
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