Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion (LPR; German: Vorlesungen über die Philosophie der Religion, VPR) outlines his ideas on Christianity as a form of self-consciousness. They represent the final and in some ways the decisive element of his philosophical system. In light of his distinctive philosophical approach, using a method that is dialectical and historical, Hegel offers a radical reinterpretation of the meaning of Christianity and its characteristic doctrines. The approach taken in these lectures is to some extent prefigured in Hegel's first published book, The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807).

Title page of the first edition, 1832.

Title page of the 1840 German edition.

Hegelianism
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Forerunners
Aristotle Böhme Spinoza Rousseau Kant Goethe Fichte Hölderlin Schelling
Successors
Feuerbach Marx Stirner Gentile Lukács Kojève Adorno Habermas
Principal works
The Phenomenology of Spirit Science of Logic Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences Lectures on Aesthetics Elements of the Philosophy of Right Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion Lectures on the Philosophy of History Lectures on the History of Philosophy
Schools
Absolute idealism Hegelianism (dialectics) British idealism German idealism
Related topics
Right Hegelians Young Hegelians
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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