Hegel's Account of Christianity and Religious Alienation
In his Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion, Hegel argues that the development of the religions of the world leads up to and culminates in Christianity, which is the one true religion. One key element which separates Christianity from the other religions, according to Hegel, concerns the issue of...
| Published in: | European journal for philosophy of religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Innsbruck in cooperation with the John Hick Centre for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Birmingham
2021
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| In: |
European journal for philosophy of religion
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich 1770-1831
/ Religion
/ History
/ Christianity
/ Alienation
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism FA Theology VA Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
Incarnation
B Self-consciousness B Trinity B Revelation B Philosophy of religion |
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (doi) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | In his Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion, Hegel argues that the development of the religions of the world leads up to and culminates in Christianity, which is the one true religion. One key element which separates Christianity from the other religions, according to Hegel, concerns the issue of alienation. He argues that the previous religions all contain some form of alienation, which can be found in their conceptions of the divine. In this paper, I wish to examine Hegel's view that Christianity alone overcomes religious alienation. What is it that makes Christianity so special in this regard? This is a particularly important issue given that the question of alienation is so central in the post-Hegelian thinkers such as Feuerbach, Bauer, and Marx, who all insist that, far from overcoming alienation, Christianity is guilty of causing it. I wish to argue that this issue provides new insight into the old criticism of Hegel as a thinker of abstraction. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: European journal for philosophy of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.24204/ejpr.v13i1.3017 |