On Critique Of Intellectual Theology In The Logic Of Hegel

Hegel's view of theology is based on the critique of intellectual thinking,which is also formal logical thinking.This non-either linear thinking results in unavoidable limitation of people's understanding of God or truth.It's impossible to understand the infinite nature of God through limited reasoning.Hegel makes detailed criticisms in a variety of theology concept based on intellectual thinking,which profoundly reveals its abstractness,isolatism,externalism and bounciness and our failure of having comprehensive,full,virtual grasp of the essential concept of God.As a result,we are inclined to either understand God from the aspect of limited intellectual thinking object or deny its existence.In Hegel's view,it is necessary to elevate the intellectual thinking to rational speculation in order to avoid intellectual theology concept.Of course,Hegel's attitude to intellectual theology concept isn't completely negative,while he considers it as a stage and link to understanding God's Nature,and also includes it in “dialectical and rational theology concept” that is comprised of“absolute spirit”.This essay is grounded on "small logic" as the analytic text and the specific theory of The preliminary provisos of logic,Essential ism,Conceptualism,and it sorts out Hegel's critique of intellectual theology concept and conducts targeted analysis accordingly.In Hegel's view,there is an insuperable theoretical dilemma in intellectual theology concept which is manifested in the contradiction between the finiteness of intellectual knowledge and the infiniteness of God concept itself,the contradiction between the integrity of God concept and the boundedness of intellectual reasoning,the contradiction between the concreteness of God and abstractness of intellectual knowledge.These contradictions will consequentially cause seperations between content and form,universality and concretness,subjectivity and objectivity.Therefore,only by elevating the way of thinking from the intellectual to the dialectical theoretical height,can we really reveal the truth of God concept,as well as can we really overcome the limitation of intellectual theology concept.In-depth analysis of Hegel's "small logic" in intellectual theology concept can not only reveal Hegel's theoretical premise of dialectical theology concept,butalso in reality can enrich and deepen the existing theory of religious criticism.