Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ofrece en sus últimas lecciones berlinesas de filosofía de la religión la exposición más sistemática, clara y accesible del concepto especulativo de Dios como Espíritu, objetivado en su representación e interiorizado en su culto. Concepto, representación y culto son los tres momentos en los que se ordena el análisis de cada grupo de religiones determinadas hasta llegar a la religión cristiana como religión consumada.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was a German philosopher and one of the founding figures of German Idealism. Influenced by Kant's transcendental idealism and Rousseau's politics, Hegel formulated an elaborate system of historical development of ethics, government, and religion through the dialectical unfolding of the Absolute. Hegel was one of the most well-known historicist philosopher, and his thought presaged continental philosophy, including postmodernism. His system was inverted into a materialist ideology by Karl Marx, originally a member of the Young Hegelian faction.