The Politics of Salvation

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The Politics of Salvation
The Hegelian Idea of State

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Paul Lakeland - Author

SUNY Series in Hegelian Studies

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Hardcover - 197 pages

Release Date: June 1985

ISBN10: 0-87395-846-2
ISBN13: 978-0-87395-846-2

Price: $31.95
Paperback - 197 pages

Release Date: June 1985

ISBN10: 0-87395-847-0
ISBN13: 978-0-87395-847-9

Summary

The Politics of Salvation takes a radical stance: it focuses on the significance of the state in the Hegelian system when it is viewed as inspired and motivated by the Christian notion of God. The book thus makes connections between Hegel's political philosophy and his explicit appropriation of Christianity's incarnational mode of thinking. In unfolding the implications of this position, Lakeland shows how Hegel's thought can offer the basis for a non-dualistic account of the human being as religious and political. This conjunction allows for a theology which sees politics as the arena of salvation providing a practical religious outlook relevant to the contemporary world and, in particular, to the commitments of Latin America's liberation theology.

The author writes: "If Hegel can be understood (as he frequently expressed himself) as expressing conceptually in speculative philosophy what religion expresses in the form of image and representation, then the covenantal demands of justice and freedom from oppression, the Christian struggle for a free and authentic humanity, and Christian hope in the kingdom of God, will all find their counterpart in the Hegelian system." Thus this Hegelian political theology can "illuminate the connections between the expectation of salvation and the struggle for liberation."

"The combination of extensive and accurate scholarship with an acute critical capacity enables Lakeland to see directions in which Hegel's thought is moving, so that it is applicable today to situations which Hegel himself did not experience. Thus, it is not simply a report on or an exposition of Hegel's thought, it is an original contribution to philosophical, political, and religious thinking." -- Quentin Lauer, S. J.

Paul Lakeland teaches in the Department of Religious Studies at Fairfield University.

Table of Contents

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

Related Subjects

Hegel
Political Science

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