PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
INTRODUCTION: HEGEL AND LIBERATIVE PRAXIS
I. THE STATE IN THE SYSTEM
II. THE STATE
Objective and Absolute Geist
Ethical Substance: the Tension Between Individual and State
State and History
III. RELIGION
What is Religion for Hegel?
What is Christianity for Hegel?
Religion and the State
Will Religion Last? Its Relation to Philosophy
IV. CHRISTIANITY AND SECULARIZATION
God-concepts
The Autonomy of the Secular
Secularization and Incarnation
V. POLITICS AS SALVATION
Praxis: the Dialectic of Individual and Community
The Dialects of Kingdom and World
Volksgeist and Weltgeist: the Dialectic of State and World
Liberative Praxis: A Practical Postscript
VI. A THEOLOGICAL POSTSCRIPT
Prayer and Politics
The Church and the State
Optimism and Evil
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX