ABSTRACT
A philosophy of God's self-realization in history involves a fundamental recasting of the concept of the Deity as found in the Hebraic-Christian theology. The historical process of God's self-realization is essentially a knowing process. Hegel calls it the 'process of becoming in terms of knowledge'. God passes from primal unconsciousness in the form of nature to ultimate self-consciousness in the person of historical man. The 'phenomenology of mind', or progress of human knowledge in the course of history, is God's passage to self-knowledge. The self-cognitive journey has its final destination in 'absolute knowledge', which is God's completed consciousness of himself and therefore actualization of himself in the mind of the philosopher. The two spheres of spirit's self-externalization are nature and history. The creative self-externalization of spirit as nature corresponds to the original act of world-creation as represented in the traditional theological system.
