Tommaso Mauri is a Researcher in the History of Philosophy at Sophia University Institute in Loppiano, Florence. His research focuses on German Idealism, especially Schelling and Jacobi, and on philosophy of religion, with broader interests in philosophy of history and metaphysics.He received his PhD in Philosophy from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan) and was a visiting researcher at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. His work has appeared in international journals such as Philosophisches Jahrbuch, Kabiri, and Discipline filosofiche.

• AcknowledgementsPreface1. SCHELLING’S LATEST SYSTEM1. Which Schelling?1.1. The 1809 turn1.2. The 1827 turn2. Unity and discontinuity of the late philosophy2.1. The first phase (1827-1837)2.2. The second phase (1838-1846)2.3. The third phase (1846-1854)3. Structure and meaning of the final system3.1. Philological and editorial history of the texts of late philosophy3.2. Negative and positive philosophy4. The method of positive philosophy4.1. The ‘phenomenological’ approach4.2. The scientific-positive method2. SCHELLING’S THEORY OF MYTHOLOGY1. The religious interpretation of mythology1.1. The method of the Historical-Critical Introduction1.2. Mythology as necessary theogonic process in consciousness2. The God-positing consciousness as subject of mythology2.1. Schelling and religious anthropology3. The genesis of the mythological process: the Sündenfall3.1. Between freedom and necessity4. Sündenfall as a privileged viewpoint on Schelling’s thought4.1. First steps4.2. Sin as ‘fall’ in the identity-system: the Platonic influence4.3. Beyond Plato: the reassessment of finitude and the historical immanentism4.4. Sündenfall and the value of the political5. Mythology as the history of the genesis of self-consciousness3. PROLEGOMENA TO A SCIENTIFIC MYTHOLOGY 1. Project and outcome of the Philosophical Introduction1.1. Systematic unity of the Historical-Critical and the Philosophical Introduction1.2. Genesis and structure of the purely rational philosophy1.3. The development of the Presentation of the Purely Rational Philosophy2. The doctrine of the potencies2.1. The empirical-noetical method2.2. The potencies in the pure thought2.3. The realised potencies3. The monotheism4. The concrete unfolding of mythology4.1. Summary outline of the mythological process4.2. Three a-mythological elements5. Mysteries as the natural transition from paganism to Christianity5.1. Erst Erfahrung, dann Lehre5.2. Mysteries and Christian revelation: the relation between natural and supernatural5.3. Dionysus and Christ4. WHAT IS CHRISTIANITY?1. What Christianity is not1.1. The critique of scholastic metaphysics1.2. The critique of Enlightenment theology1.3. The critique of Kant’s moralistic reduction2. Christianity between history and eternity3. Idealistic Christology and the system of identity3.1. Christianity, history and speculation (I)3.2. The allegorical Christ3.3. A provisional Christianity4. The Philosophy of revelation as Christology4.1. Christianity, history and speculation (II)4.2. Christ as an autonomous personality5. Christianity without faith?5.1 At the beginning of science: Faith as trust in knowledge5.2. At the end of science: Faith as a certainty that overcomes all doubt5.3. Beyond science: Faith as a personal experience5. SCHELLING’S LATE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY1. History in the organism of times1.1. The beginning of history1.2. History and progress1.3. The future and the end of history2. Religion as periodising factor2.1. The discovery of a specific religious principle2.2. Revealed religion and axial revolution2.3. Modern philosophy as a religious phenomenon3. Schelling as a secularisation theorist: between metaphysics and philosophy of history3.1. The autonomy of reason in On the Source of the Eternal Truths3.2. Human autonomy and secularisation3.3. Purely rational philosophy as an ‘Immanent Frame’4. Religion and the State4.1. Schelling’s late political philosophy4.2. Schelling’s late political eschatology6. PHILOSOPHICAL RELIGION1. The development of the concept2. Philosophical religion and Hegel’s absolute knowledge3. Philosophical religion and ecclesiology3.1. A polar ecclesiology3.2. The Church of John4. Philosophical religion, chiliasm and the ‘New Mythology’5. Philosophical religion today5.1. Religious secularism5.2. Virtual contributionism5.3. Critical evaluation5.4. From religions to religious experienceBibliography