Hegel 's Rational Religious View

Hegel’s rational view on religion is very important and unique in the history of religion, but people don’t pay attention to it. It is a religion system step by step which live through early theology, transitional period of theology-religion philosophy, finally his later writing the Lecture on the Philosophy of Religion, we can uncover the rational element of Hegel’s religion thought, namely, he establish the system with the concept. At macro level, it is a process that is from concept to judgment and it is completed by inference. At micro level, it is from the concept of religion to the representation of history, finally it reach community and worship. Hegel’s rational religion view is particular, because it is by using the method of logic. It is a particular pattern of the study of the religion.