Hegel's metaphysics of God Book

	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
I	The Tension Between Religion and Philosophy	1
II	The Enlightenment and Romanticism on Knowing God	3
III	Hegel's Solution to the Problem of Cognition of God	6
1	Hegel's Critique of the Ontological Proof	9
I	Introduction	9
II	Anselm's Formulation of the Ontological Proof	10
III	Kant's Critique of the Ontological Proof	13
IV	Hegel's Rejection of Kant's Critique	21
V	Hegel's Criticism of Anselm's Ontological Proof	28
2	Hegel's Ontological Proof	33
I	Lessing's Ditch and Hegel's Ontological Proof	33
II	The Form That a Proof for God's Existence Must Take	35
III	Hegel's Ontological Proof: Being is Systematic Mind	39
IV	Bridging Lessing's Ditch: The Truth of the Finite is the Infinite	60
V	Hegel's Proof Takes the Proper Form	62
3	Hegel's Metaphysics of God	67
I	Hegel's Proof Entails a Trinitarian Divine Ontology	67
II	The Enlightenment's Empty Concept of God	70
III	Hegel's Response to Enlightenment Philosophy of God	71
IV	Hegel's Deduction of God's Trinitarian Structure	73
V	The Deduction of the Intrinsic Trinity	73
VI	The Deduction of the Extrinsic Trinity	82
VII	Knowledge of God: The Kingdom of the Spirit	89
VIII	A Summary of Hegel's Ontological Proof	91
IX	Conclusion	93
4	Philosophy's Completion of the Extrinsic Trinity	95
I	Introduction	95
II	Humanity as Alienated from God	96
III	The Reconciliation of God and Humanity	102
IV	The Kingdom of the Spirit: The Spiritual Community	106
V	Conclusion	119
	Bibliography	125
	Index	127