“…20 There has been a fair amount of puzzling concerning Hegel and his views regarding the death of God in the dominant culture of his time. See, for example, Amengual 2003;Brinkmann 2006;Desmond 2005 andFranke 2007;Hodgson 2005;Houlgate 2005;Lauer 1982;Nichols 2005;and Olson 1992. further, a self-consciousness in man and man's knowledge of God, which proceeds to man's self-knowledge in God" (Hegel 1971, p. 298, §564). Once locked within the horizon of the finite and the immanent, there is no perspective beyond the perspective of these intellectuals.…”