Publication at Protestant Theological Faculty |
2020
Abstract
The article focuses on the question why Hegel identifies himself repeatedly with Lutheranism. The author analyses two texts in which Hegel explicitly mentions his affiliation to the Lutheran form of Christian tradition (his letter to August Tholuck, Lectures on the Philosophy of History) and interprets them with regard to the broader context of Hegel's philosophy.
She shows that in both cases Hegel's remark about his identification with Lutheranism is not to be understood primarily as critique of Catholicism but as critique of some of the trends of the Protestant theology of Enlightenment.