"Hegel and the Spirit" explores the meaning of Hegel's grand
philosophical category, the category of Geist, by way of what Alan
Olson terms a pneumatological thesis. Hegel's philosophy of spirit,
according to Olson, is a speculative pneumatology that completes
what Adolf von Harnack once called the "orphan doctrine" in
Christian theology--the doctrine of the Holy Spirit. Olson argues
that Hegel's development of philosophy as pneumatology originates
out of a deep appreciation of Luther's dialectical understanding of
Spirit and that Hegel's doctrine of Spirit is thus deeply
interfused with the values of Wurtemberg Pietism. Olson further
maintains that Hegel's "Enzyklopdie" is the post-Enlightenment
philosophical equivalent of a Trinitatslehre and that his
"Rechtsphilosophie" is an ecclesiology. Thus "Hegel and the Spirit"
demonstrates the truth of Karl Barth's observation that Hegel is
the potential Aquinas of Protestantism. Exploring Hegel's
philosophy of spirit in historical, cultural, and personal
religious context, the book identifies Hegel's relationship with
Holderlin and his response to Holderlin's madness as key elements
in the philosopher's religious and philosophical development,
especially with respect to the meaning of transcendence and
dialectic."
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