The main intervention in this penultimate chapter involves the delineation of three interpretations of Hegel’s “practical cultus,” which registers as the third of the three layers of religious consciousness. I stipulate that germane scholarship has only rendered Hegel’s “practical cultus” intelligible in accordance with the first two interpretations: objective spirit (“practical cultus” as indicative of implicit self-conception of human freedom) and inward-facing absolute spirit (“practical cultus” as indicative of activities of service and worship directed toward divinity). I suggest the third interpretive category of “practical cultus” qua indicative of the gaps and ruptures in formations of religious consciousness (or “outward-facing absolute spirit”), inspiring the transformations inside and outside of religious consciousness as well as disclosing Hegel’s “divinity” in its outward-facing modality. I close the chapter by explaining the immanent progression of “practical cultus” within Christian religious consciousness, culminating with the open-ended trinitarian figuration of the Holy Spirit.

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Hegel’s Phenomenology of Religion as Phenomenology of Practical Cultus

  • Jason Barton

摘要

The main intervention in this penultimate chapter involves the delineation of three interpretations of Hegel’s “practical cultus,” which registers as the third of the three layers of religious consciousness. I stipulate that germane scholarship has only rendered Hegel’s “practical cultus” intelligible in accordance with the first two interpretations: objective spirit (“practical cultus” as indicative of implicit self-conception of human freedom) and inward-facing absolute spirit (“practical cultus” as indicative of activities of service and worship directed toward divinity). I suggest the third interpretive category of “practical cultus” qua indicative of the gaps and ruptures in formations of religious consciousness (or “outward-facing absolute spirit”), inspiring the transformations inside and outside of religious consciousness as well as disclosing Hegel’s “divinity” in its outward-facing modality. I close the chapter by explaining the immanent progression of “practical cultus” within Christian religious consciousness, culminating with the open-ended trinitarian figuration of the Holy Spirit.