God and Man in History. The influence of Jakob Böhme and G. W. F. Hegel on Ferdinand Christian Baur’s Philosophical Understanding of Religion as Gnosis

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Ferdinand Christian Baur’s thought about religion focuses on the idea of Gnosis in close connection with the notion of history, but rather than favor a traditional approach, he prefers a different path: a “new” understanding of religion which draws quite heavily on Hegel’s philosophy, promoting the idea that history is the realm where God and man exist and work together. Cover Page Title Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Introduction Preliminary Considerations A General View of Baur’s Methodology God as Spirit in Hegel The Fundamentals of Jakob Böhme’s Theosophy Chapter 1. Gnosis and History: Baur’s View of Religion as Gnosis Based on the Idea of History Understanding Gnosis as System Understanding Gnosis as History Understanding Gnosis as Church History Chapter 2. God and Man: Baur’s View of Religion as Gnosis Under Hegel’s Influence From God’s Immanence to Man’s Mortality through the Death of Christ Christ as the Human God and the Divine Man Chapter 3. God: Baur’s View of Religion as Gnosis Based on Böhme’s View of the Divine Being The Essence of the Divine Being The Trinitarian God The Features of the Divine Being The Trinitarian God Between Spirit and Nature God as a Human Idea Between the Antiquity of Moses and the Novelty of Christ Chapter 4. Man: View of Religion as Gnosis Based on Böhme’s Anthropology The Image of Adam: Dualistic, Material, and Androgynous The Image of Man: Dualistic, Material, and Feminine God’s Virgin as Adam: The Finitude of Humanity Adam Between Spirituality and Materiality God’s Virgin as Christ: the Ideal of Humanity The Idea of Incarnation: From God’s Virgin to the Virgin Mary God’s Virgin as the Dualistic Image of Man: Between Maleness and Femaleness God’s Virgin as the Dualistic Image of Man: Between Spirituality and Materiality Conclusion No Religion Without Philosophy Baur’s Hegelian “Christian Religious Philosophy” The Devil as the Principle of Evil: The Key to Understanding Spirituality Between Gnosticism and Docetism Personal Remarks Bibliography Articles Book Chapters Books