La mort de Dieu selon Hegel. L'interprétation d'Eberhard Jüngel

Abstract

The Death of God according to Hegel. Eberhard Jungel's Interpretation. Jungel's interpretation is correct in stressing the link existing between the christological meaning of the word «God is dead», predominant in Hegel's Phenomenology and his Lectures at Berlin, and the diagnosis of culture elaborated by Faith and Knowledge. But this interpretation tends to neglect the cosmic and political dimension of this diagnosis. Furthermore, although he is correct in stressing the possibilities offered to theologians by Hegel's meditation on the death of Christ (to decipher the atheistic phenomenon as well as to reflect on the existence of God), Jungel does not perceive sufficiently, notwithstanding his reservations toward Hegel, the opposition between the hegelian introduction of negativity in divine essence and an authentic theology.