Schlitt Hegel's Trinitarian Claim

A Critical Reflection
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4384-4376-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 401 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Landmark study of Hegel’s arguments for God as Trinity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schlitt, Dale M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface to the Paperback Edition
Abbreviations of Works by Hegel
Introduction: Hegel’s Trinitarian Claim

Part I: Logic—Hegel’s Reformulation of the True Content of Trinity

1. Logic as Movement of Trinitarian Divine Subjectivity

Logic—the Movement of Pure Thought
The Movement of Self-determining Subjectivity
The Self-determining of the Divine Subject
The Necessarily Triadic Structure of the Self-determining Divine Subject
The Logic as Elaboration of Hegel’s Trinitarian Claim

2. Hegel’s Logic of Pure Thought

Through Etwasi to Being
The Primordial, Elementary Movement of Pure Thought
Summary Remarks on the Structure of Hegel’s Dialectic
Critique of the Primordial, Elementary Movement of Pure Thought
The Determinate Nature of Any Beginning—Implications for Trinity

Part II: Hegel’s Explicit Trinitarian Texts

3. Overview of Hegel’s Trinitarian Thought and a Criterion for the Phenomenology

Transition to Hegel’s Explicit Trinitarian Texts
Hegel’s Syllogistically Structured Explicitly Trinitarian Thought
Guiding Concerns in Approaching the Phenomenology
Toward a Criterion for Critiquing the Phenomenology
A Criterion for Hegel’s Argument in the Phenomenology

4. The Incarnational Immediacy of Trinitarian reconciliation in the Phenomenology

Preliminary, Contextualizing Remarks
Reconciliation in Its Incarnational Immediacy and Trinitarian Explicitation
Critique of Trinitarian Reconciliation in Incarnational Immediacy
Implications for Trinity and for the Self

5. Trinitarian Reconciliation in Hegel’s Philosophy of Religion Lectures

Introduction and Context
Syllogistically Structured Trinitarian Divine Subjectivity in the 1827 Lectures
Critique of Trinitarian Reconciliation as Spiritual Community
The Formal Triadic Structure of Becoming

Part Three: Reconstructing Hegel’s Trinitarian Envisionment

4. From Finite to Infinite

Recapitulative Overview
The Contours of Hegel’s Finite “and” Infinite
From Finitude to Tradically Structured Inclusive Infinite
Toward a Reformulation of Hegel’s Trinitarian Claim

Postscript: From Thought to Experience

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Currently Research Professor in Philosophy and Theology at the Oblate School of Theology, Dale M. Schlitt spent many years at Saint Paul University in Ottawa. His books include Divine Subjectivity: Understanding Hegel's Philosophy of Religion and Experience and Spirit: A Post-Hegelian Philosophical Theology.