Heterodox Hegel

Cyril O'Regan is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Yale University.

"It is a work of great originality and enormous comprehension that imposes itself upon Hegel scholarship by its sheer intellectual power, its creative expression, and its staggering erudition." — Louis Dupré, Yale University"This work is original and brilliant as the first full-length study of the mystical background to Hegel. Cyril O'Regan's work is a ground-breaking study that will enable readers of Hegel to understand him within the context of the mystical tradition that he claimed as his own. For he made no secret of his filiation with the esoteric strands of Christian mysticism and this was clearly the way he was understood by F. C. Bauer, as well as Feuerbach, Engels, Marx and many of his immediate successors. It has always struck me as a major lacuna in Hegel scholarship that such a study had not appeared. Now it has been filled in considerable measure." — David Walsh, The Catholic University of America"I find this book utterly fascinating to read. In many respects it read like a detective novel. Hegel continues to grow in importance, and the metaphysical/theological aspect of his thought, which he places at the center, remains, indeed, central. There are a number of good books in the area in English, but nothing quite as ambitious and comprehensive as this study. It is a milestone in the study of Hegel's religious thought which no future work in the area will be able to ignore." — Merold Westphal, Fordham University"This is an outstanding study of Hegel's philosophy of religion, exceptionally illuminating with respect to Hegel's account of the Trinity and the sources of Hegel's views. The author has an exceptional mastery of the entire tradition of speculative theology, a synoptic mastery of Hegel's texts and the major commentaries in English, German and French." — William Desmond, Loyola College

• Foreword by Louis Dupré Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction Part 1. Ontotheological Foundations Chapter 1. Hegelian Rendition of the Deus Revelatus of Christianity Section 1.1 Against Negative TheologySection 1.2 Narrative and the Deus RevelatusSection 1.3 Trinity as Adequate Theological Articulation Part 2. The Trinitarian Structuration of the Epochal Divine Chapter 2. The First Narrative Epoch: The "Immanent Trinity" Section 2.1 Hegelian Logic as Logica DivinaSection 2.2 The "Immanent Trinity" as Speculatively Informed Vorstellung: LPR and Other Hegelian TextsSection 2.3 Trinitarian Swerve: Dynamic, Narrative Modalism Chapter 3. The Second Narrative Epoch: Creation and The Epoch of the Son Section 3.1 Hegelian Legitimation of the Representation of CreationSection 3.2 Creation as Fall and EvilSection 3.3 Hegelian Swerve from the Normative Christian Tradition Chapter 4. Epochal Overlap: Incarnation and the Passion Narrative Section 4.1 Hegel's Mature Christological Position: Trinitarian Contextualization of Theologia CrucisSection 4.2 Deus Patibilis: Hegel and Luther: Agreement and Swerve Chapter 5. The Third Narrative Epoch: The Moment or Kingdom of the Spirit Section 5.1 Spiritual Community (Gemeinde): Corpus MysticumSection 5.2 Complex Mystical Determination: Complex Mystical Inflection Chapter 6. The Third Narrative Epoch: The Inclusive Trinity Section 6.1 Holy Spirit—Spirit: Spirit—"Immanent Trinity"Section 6.2 The Genre of Hegelian ApocalypseSection 6.3 The Genre of Hegelian Theodicy Part 3. Narrative and Logico-Conceptual Articulation Chapter 7. Representation and Concept: Speculative Rewriting Section 7.1 Representation and Concept in Hegel's Mature WorksSection 7.2 Agents of Speculative RewritingSection 7.3 Hegel and the Perdurance of Narrative Notes Bibliography Indexes