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• Christian Love (Simmel's Reconstruction)

  Simmel's philosophical reconstruction of Christian love as a distinct trans-vital love-form, structurally opposed to universal-philanthropy: Christian love embraces the total person — sinner as sinner, "without that 'in spite of'" (Oakes p…

• Entäußerung (Relinquishment / Kenosis)

  Entäußerung is Hegel's term for the self-relinquishing that IS the actuality of substance — not a defective state to be overcome, but the very form in which spirit gives itself any actuality at all. Pinkard's 2018 Cambridge translation ren…

• Interior God / Exterior God (Incarnation Read Socially)

  Merleau-Ponty's structural reading of Catholicism's spiritual ambiguity in Sense and Non-Sense's "Faith and Good Faith" (Chapter 12, Les Temps modernes No. 5, February 1946). The Augustinian interior God ("turn inward... truth dwells withi…

• Meister Eckhart

  German Dominican theologian and mystic (c. 1260 – c. 1328), one of the cardinal voices of medieval Rhineland mysticism. Currently appears in the wiki as the proof-text anchor for love-as-ungrounded-primary-category in Simmel's love-fragmen…

• Speculative Good Friday

  Hegel's name (from Glauben und Wissen, 1802; recapitulated in the Phenomenology Religion chapter at §§779–785) for the dialectical-speculative meaning of Christ's death: the death of the divine mediator is simultaneously the death of the a…

• Unhappy Consciousness

  Das unglückliche Bewusstsein — Hegel's name for the split self that emerges at the end of the Self-Consciousness chapter (§§206–230). After mastery, Stoicism, and Skepticism have all failed to actualize self-consciousness's freedom, consci…