Paul Lakeland teaches in the Department of Religious Studies at Fairfield University.

• PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS INTRODUCTION: HEGEL AND LIBERATIVE PRAXIS I. THE STATE IN THE SYSTEM II. THE STATE Objective and Absolute GeistEthical Substance: the Tension Between Individual and StateState and History III. RELIGION What is Religion for Hegel?What is Christianity for Hegel?Religion and the StateWill Religion Last? Its Relation to Philosophy IV. CHRISTIANITY AND SECULARIZATION God-conceptsThe Autonomy of the SecularSecularization and Incarnation V. POLITICS AS SALVATION Praxis: the Dialectic of Individual and CommunityThe Dialects of Kingdom and WorldVolksgeist and Weltgeist: the Dialectic of State and WorldLiberative Praxis: A Practical Postscript VI. A THEOLOGICAL POSTSCRIPT Prayer and PoliticsThe Church and the StateOptimism and Evil NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

"The combination of extensive and accurate scholarship with an acute critical capacity enables Lakeland to see directions in which Hegel's thought is moving, so that it is applicable today to situations which Hegel himself did not experience. Thus, it is not simply a report on or an exposition of Hegel's thought, it is an original contribution to philosophical, political, and religious thinking." — Quentin Lauer, S. J.

Paul Lakeland teaches in the Department of Religious Studies at Fairfield University.

• PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS INTRODUCTION: HEGEL AND LIBERATIVE PRAXIS I. THE STATE IN THE SYSTEM II. THE STATE Objective and Absolute GeistEthical Substance: the Tension Between Individual and StateState and History III. RELIGION What is Religion for Hegel?What is Christianity for Hegel?Religion and the StateWill Religion Last? Its Relation to Philosophy IV. CHRISTIANITY AND SECULARIZATION God-conceptsThe Autonomy of the SecularSecularization and Incarnation V. POLITICS AS SALVATION Praxis: the Dialectic of Individual and CommunityThe Dialects of Kingdom and WorldVolksgeist and Weltgeist: the Dialectic of State and WorldLiberative Praxis: A Practical Postscript VI. A THEOLOGICAL POSTSCRIPT Prayer and PoliticsThe Church and the StateOptimism and Evil NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

"The combination of extensive and accurate scholarship with an acute critical capacity enables Lakeland to see directions in which Hegel's thought is moving, so that it is applicable today to situations which Hegel himself did not experience. Thus, it is not simply a report on or an exposition of Hegel's thought, it is an original contribution to philosophical, political, and religious thinking." — Quentin Lauer, S. J.

Paul Lakeland teaches in the Department of Religious Studies at Fairfield University.

• PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS INTRODUCTION: HEGEL AND LIBERATIVE PRAXIS I. THE STATE IN THE SYSTEM II. THE STATE Objective and Absolute GeistEthical Substance: the Tension Between Individual and StateState and History III. RELIGION What is Religion for Hegel?What is Christianity for Hegel?Religion and the StateWill Religion Last? Its Relation to Philosophy IV. CHRISTIANITY AND SECULARIZATION God-conceptsThe Autonomy of the SecularSecularization and Incarnation V. POLITICS AS SALVATION Praxis: the Dialectic of Individual and CommunityThe Dialects of Kingdom and WorldVolksgeist and Weltgeist: the Dialectic of State and WorldLiberative Praxis: A Practical Postscript VI. A THEOLOGICAL POSTSCRIPT Prayer and PoliticsThe Church and the StateOptimism and Evil NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

"The combination of extensive and accurate scholarship with an acute critical capacity enables Lakeland to see directions in which Hegel's thought is moving, so that it is applicable today to situations which Hegel himself did not experience. Thus, it is not simply a report on or an exposition of Hegel's thought, it is an original contribution to philosophical, political, and religious thinking." — Quentin Lauer, S. J.