“God Himself Is Dead!” Luther, Hegel, and the Death of God

Depoortere, Frederiek

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“…For over a thousand years the Catholic Church had upheld the Chalcedonian formula concerning the two natures of Christ (divine and human) that co-exist "without confusion, without change, without division, without separation." 8 Behind this distinction lurks what Keith Ward calls the "classical picture of God," a picture that Christian theologians derived from Greek philosophy. 9 God cannot change.…”

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Beyond Deep Incarnation: Rethinking Christology in Radical Lutheran Terms

Peterson¹

2014

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This article takes the demise of Christendom and what Diana Butler Bass calls the end of religion as its point of departure for a “radical” rethinking of God in fully kenotic terms. It rejects any vestige of otherworldly transcendence as a temptation to escapism, inviting us instead to seek God's complete presence among us here in the world. Going beyond Niels Gregersen's understanding of the deep incarnation of the Logos and starting instead with a complete commitment to the infra‐Lutheranum, the author presents a radical Lutheran theology that embraces a total kenosis of God whose liberating and life‐giving reappearance we must find implicit among us in unexpected places, not least of which might include the embers of a dying church or the crumbling of our religious institutions.

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Beyond Deep Incarnation: Rethinking Christology in Radical Lutheran Terms

Peterson¹

2014

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Hegel’s Political Theology of Kenosis: From the Death of God to the Hegelian Monarch

Molina

2024

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This article explores the concept of the death of God in Hegel's philosophy and its implications for his political thought. It argues that Hegel's notion of the death of God involves a Christological kenotic sense of self-emptying, which extends beyond his philosophy of religion to impact his entire philosophical system, including politics, given that Hegel considers that the state consists in the march of God. The paper aims to interpret Hegel’s stance on the death of God as kenotic and its integration into his system, with the purpose of addressing how this kenotic structure manifests in concrete conceptions of the state. Specifically, it examines the enigmatic figure of the Hegelian monarch as a kenotic-political figure. Finally, it concludes that Hegel's political thought consists of a political theology of kenosis, which is more concerned with the divestment of power rather than a plenipotentiary paradigm.

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Valhalla Is Burning: Theory, the Middle Ages, and Secularization

Parker¹

2015

Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Am.

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In 1802 the Franciscan Friary standing in Munich since the late thirteenth century was razed to make room for the national Theater. Many of its books found their way to the state library where, among further spoils swept up in the waves of secularization following the French Revolution, they fed the growth of modern medievalism. Other relics fed other tastes. A profitable brewery remained in the friary's basement, operated now under secular license, while everything else detachable—furniture, copper gutters and plates, lead and iron fittings, window frames, artwork, altars, the tower clock and organ—went to the highest bidder to pay for the theater's troubled construction. Buttresses buckled and pushed through walls. When three workers raising the roof beam fell into a pit, critics divined the hand of God in retaliation for the friary's ruin. Different observers, more favorable perhaps to the cause of art, stressed the workers' survival and took it as a miraculous omen for the theater's future—God's blessing, so to speak, on historical progress. In the short term, it wasn't. In 1823 the theater caught fire and burned to the ground, as onlookers claimed to see in the rising smoke “the face of a monstrous Franciscan.”

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“God Himself Is Dead!” Luther, Hegel, and the Death of God

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Beyond Deep Incarnation: Rethinking Christology in Radical Lutheran Terms

Beyond Deep Incarnation: Rethinking Christology in Radical Lutheran Terms

Hegel’s Political Theology of Kenosis: From the Death of God to the Hegelian Monarch

Valhalla Is Burning: Theory, the Middle Ages, and Secularization

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