God and man in history: the influence of Jakob Bohme and G. W. F. Hegel on Ferdinand Christian Baur's philosophical understanding of religion as gnosis

Cover Page
Title Page
	Title Page
	Copyright Page
	Dedication
	Table of Contents
	Introduction
		Preliminary Considerations
		A General View of Baur’s Methodology
		God as Spirit in Hegel
		The Fundamentals of Jakob Böhme’s Theosophy
	Chapter 1. Gnosis and History: Baur’s View of Religion as Gnosis Based on the Idea of History
		Understanding Gnosis as System
		Understanding Gnosis as History
		Understanding Gnosis as Church History
	Chapter 2. God and Man: Baur’s View of Religion as Gnosis Under Hegel’s Influence
		From God’s Immanence to Man’s Mortality through the Death of Christ
		Christ as the Human God and the Divine Man
	Chapter 3. God: Baur’s View of Religion as Gnosis Based on Böhme’s View of the Divine Being
		The Essence of the Divine Being
		The Trinitarian God
		The Features of the Divine Being
		The Trinitarian God Between Spirit and Nature
		God as a Human Idea Between the Antiquity of Moses and the Novelty of Christ
	Chapter 4. Man: View of Religion as Gnosis Based on Böhme’s Anthropology
		The Image of Adam: Dualistic, Material, and Androgynous
		The Image of Man: Dualistic, Material, and Feminine
		God’s Virgin as Adam: The Finitude of Humanity
		Adam Between Spirituality and Materiality
		God’s Virgin as Christ: the Ideal of Humanity
		The Idea of Incarnation: From God’s Virgin to the Virgin Mary
		God’s Virgin as the Dualistic Image of Man: Between Maleness and Femaleness
		God’s Virgin as the Dualistic Image of Man: Between Spirituality and Materiality
	Conclusion
		No Religion Without Philosophy
		Baur’s Hegelian “Christian Religious Philosophy”
		The Devil as the Principle of Evil: The Key to Understanding Spirituality
		Between Gnosticism and Docetism
		Personal Remarks
	Bibliography
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