ABSTRACT
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, German romanticists and idealists could not get along with traditional Christian ideas anymore and conceived new thoughts about God and religion. In Hegel’s philosophy, God is thought of as Spirit. Because humans (spirits) participate in God (Spirit), God is neither a separate being nor the pure imagination of the human mind, which makes him interesting after Kuitert. Hegel reflects on the death of God but claims that the death of God is not the end of God. Through Good Friday and the death of Christ, humans realise that they are not facing an abstract God outside the world but are themselves spirits who have come to know Spirit.
