In this introductory chapter, I set out to accomplish three tasks. First, I intend to contextualize and historicize Hegel’s philosophy of religion within his lengthy intellectual itinerary, beginning with his so-called Early Theological Writings (1793–1800) and continuing until his Berlin Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion (1821–1831). Second and in contrast to the internal development of Hegel’s Religionsphilosophie, I explore the neglected scholarly terrain of Jakob Böhme’s (1575–1624) external influence upon the constitution of Hegel’s phenomenology of religion (or the progression of religious consciousness through its variegated phases on the way to absolute spirit’s self-recognition in the modality of representation). Finally, I close the chapter by situating the proposed Hegelian account of divine revelation with respect to conventional theological models of divine revelation. Here, I contend and defend that the Hegelian model proves to be a unique contribution to theological constructions of divine (self-)disclosure.