ABSTRACT
For all their insight, these interpretations of Hegel’s religious thought are nevertheless illegitimate. In Hegel’s philosophy, as it happens, neither the subjectivity of a revealed God nor the modern philosophical notion of the subject can be seen in isolation. Yet the theologians persist in disassociating them. De facto, the notion of divine alienation detached from its philosophical replica, where alienation is understood as a movement of and within reason, could certainly point to a lack. The negativity at play within the essence of the divine, if we were to separate it from its philosophical destiny (advenir), can clearly appear as the sign of an absence of future. Nonetheless this apparent shortage of futurity and the lack it implies will cease to be relevant when the divine subject and the subject of modern philosophy are restored to one another.
