Hegel was our first family dog, which probably tells you all you need to know about our family. Before that, Hegel was a German philosopher, famously one of the most impenetrable, and yet weirdly influential for all that. In this episode, Dad shines a light in the fog. Don't worry if you come to this topic with nothing but Thesis + Antithesis = Synthesis. I didn't either, but it all made sense in the end. Kind of.

Notes:

1. Related Episodes: St. Paul Among the Philosophers, Critical Social Theory

2. See Dad’s Divine Simplicity and Divine Complexity; plus, with his colleague Adkins, Rethinking Philosophy and Theology with Deleuze

3. Adkins, Death and Desire in Hegel, Heidegger and Deleuze

4. Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion

5. Kojeve, Introduction to the Reading of Hegel

6. O’Regan, The Heterodox Hegel

7. Moltmann, The Crucified God

8. Agamben, The Time That Remains

9. Žižek and Milbank, The Monstrosity of Christ

10. Ayres, Nicaea and its Legacy

11. Małysz, "Hegel's Conception of God and its Application by Isaak Dorner to the Problem of Divine Immutability," Pro Ecclesia XV:4 (2006): 448-471