In A Post-hegelian Spirit Philosophical Theology As Idealistic Discontent

Gary dorrien expounds in this book the religious philosophy underlying his many magisterial books on modern theology, social ethics, and political philosophy.His constructive position is liberal-liberationist and post-hegelian, reflecting his many years of social justice activism and what he calls my dance with hegel. Hegel, he argues, broke open the deadliest assumptions of western thought by conceiving being as becoming and consciousness as the social-subjective relation of spirit to itself yet his white eurocentric conceits were grotesquely inflated even by the standards of his time.Dorrien emphasizes both sides of this hegelian legacy, contending that it takes a great deal of digging and refuting to recover the parts of hegel that still matter for religious thought. By distilling his signature argument about the role of post-kantian idealism in modern christian thought, dorrien fashions a liberationist form of religious idealism: a religious philosophy that is simultaneously both hegelian As it expounds a fluid, holistic, open, intersubjective, ambiguous, tragic, and reconciliatory idea of revelation And post-hegelian, as it rejects the deep-seated flaws in hegel's thought.Dorrien mines kant, schleiermacher, and hegel as the foundation of his argument about intellectual intuition and the creative power of subjectivity.After analyzing critiques of hegel by soren kierkegaard, karl marx, karl barth, and emmanuel levinas, dorrien contends that though these monumental fi...

Gary dorrien expounds in this book the religious philosophy underlying his many magisterial books on modern theology, social ethics, and political philosophy.His constructive position is