Hasidism as Hegel's "Consummate Religion": Messianic Agenda in the Theologies of Izbitza-Radzyn and Lubavitch Branches of Hasidism
2014
Abstract
This chapter attempts to interpret the basic teological tenets of Hasidic mysticism through the lens of Hegel's philosophy of religion. Hasidism seems to conform to the category of the "consummate religion", which, according to Hegel, refers to such a form of religion in which the relationship of finite consciousness to its absolute object is consumated in their absolute unity.