Abstract
Discussion of the putatively Christian character of Hegel's philosophy focuses on the question of the relation fHegel envisages between philosophy and religion. There are those who argue that his philosophy is simply a foundational Christian metaphysic, a species of the philosophy of religion.2 Others are no less convinced that Hegel's system is the end of religion,3 and there are innumerable variations between the two extremes. This discussion dates back at least to the years immediately following Hegel's death in 1831, when those who interpreted him as a Christian philosopher and those who thought of him as at least implicitly atheistic were polarized into the so-called right and left wings of Hegelian philosophy.4 Classical right-wing interpretation saw Hegel as a metaphysician, thus leaving room for the identification of the Hegelian absolute with the Christian God. On the left, Hegel was (at the highest) an ontologist, and the Christian god could not survive. Still today, though in a severely modified way, it is possible to talk in mean-
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