ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses an assessment of the difficult relationship between the Christian religion and German idealism. Manfred Durner writes, Schelling's late philosophy, both in its content and in the structure of its thought, is influenced by the heritage of Christian thought to the highest degree. Christian Danz draws attention to the wide consensus that, 'Christology has a central position in Schelling's late philosophy'. According to Schelling, his own Identity Philosophy had differed from Fichte's claim that the outside world was non-being or non-subject. Hegel claims to be orthodox Lutheran, but in fact he only accepted a Christianity which systematically altered to be a vehicle for his own philosophy. Schelling's emphasis on the revelation as an event in real history contrasts strikingly with Fichte for whom religion was defined purely within the limits of subjective morality, and as a practical support for it.
