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Studies in Hegel's philosophy of religion with a chapter on Christian unity in America

"The insisting upon knowing what there is in it, even in religion, is one of the profoundest impulses of the human spirit. Hegel tried to satisfy this demand in his Philosophie der religion. He endeavored to discover and state the speculative idea of religion. But with him the speculative was both vital and practical--the very life of the spirit throbbing through all the tangled mass of variegated religious phenomena in the world's history. Dr. W. T. Harris, the profoundest student of Hegel in this country, says that "no other work more deserves translation into English." But any mere translation of it would need a further translation into expository paraphrase. The inadequacy of such a translation may be tested by the reader in the first few pages of Chapter VIII. I therefore offer some studies on parts of this great work, deeming them of value, both in themselves, and in introducing readers to Hegel's own volumes"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).

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