ABSTRACT
Hegel makes people reconsider the question of God and how he answers it. He also forces people to ask how they might differently pose the question and respond. This chapter explores the reserve of the intimate and religious singularity; the reserve of evil and the ultimate 'no': the reserve of the full and religious community; the reserve of transcendence as exceeding holistic immanence; and the reserve of infinity beyond every closed, even self-mediating whole. Kierkegaard's protest is one of the many bad dreams that Hegel's religious successors had, bad dreams that made them start awake, fitful and as if in a metaphysical fever, perplexed and rightly rebellious about the wretchedness of the claimed completion. The chapter concludes that Hegel lacks speculative finesse, not only for the hyperboles of being, but also God's reserves, and for God beyond the whole.
