Hegel's Trinitarian Claim : A Critical Reflection

by Schlitt, Dale M.

• ISBN13: 9781438443744
• ISBN10: 1438443749
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-12-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

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

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Abbreviations of Works by Hegel	p. xv
Introduction: Hegel's Trinitarian Claim	p. xix
Logic-Hegel's Reformulation of the True Content of Trinity
Logic as Movement of Trinitarian Divine Subjectivity	p. 3
Logic-the Movement of Pure Thought	p. 3
The Movement of Self-determining Subjectivity	p. 8
The Self-determining of the Divine Subject	p. 14
The Necessarily Triadic Structure of the Self-determining Divine Subject	p. 19
The Logic as Elaboration of Hegel's Trinitarian Claim	p. 21
Hegel's Logic of Pure Thought	p. 25
Through Etwas to Being	p. 25
The Primordial, Elementary Movement of Pure Thought	p. 29
Summary Remarks on the Structure of Hegel's Dialectic	p. 35
Critique of the Primordial, Elementary Movement of Pure Thought	p. 41
The Determinate Nature of Any Beginning-Implications for Trinity	p. 47
Hegel's Explicit Trinitarian Texts
Overview of Hegel's Explicit Trinitarian Thought and a Criterion for the Phenomenology	p. 57
Transition to Hegel's Explicit Trinitarian Texts	p. 57
Hegel's Syllogistically Structured Explicitly Trinitarian Thought	p. 59
Guiding Concerns in Approaching the Phenomenology	p. 70
Toward a Criterion for Critiquing the Phenomenology	p. 73
A Criterion for Hegel's Argument in the Phenomenology	p. 79
The Incarnational Immediacy of Trinitarian Reconciliation in the Phenomenology	p. 83
Preliminary, Contextualizing Remarks	p. 83
Reconciliation in Its Incarnational Immediacy and Trinitarian Explicitation	p. 85
Critique of Trinitarian Reconciliation in Its Incarnational Immediacy	p. 92
Implications for Trinity and for the Self	p. 111
Trinitarian Reconciliation in Hegel's Philosophy of Religion Lectures	p. 121
Introduction and Context	p. 121
Syllogistically Structured Trinitarian Divine Subjectivity in the 1827 Lectures	p. 124
Critique of Trinitarian Reconciliation as Spiritual Community	p. 140
The Formal Triadic Structure of Becoming	p. 149
Reconstructing Hegel's Trinitarian Envisionment
From Finite to Infinite	p. 159
Recapitulative Overview	p. 159
The Contours of Hegel's Finite "and" Infinite	p. 162
From Finitude to Triadically Structured Inclusive Infinite	p. 174
Toward a Reformulation of Hegel's Trinitarian Claim	p. 181
Postscript: From Thought to Experience	p. 183
Notes	p. 193
Bibliography	p. 349
Index of Names	p. 371
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