Editing Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (section)

=== The Berlin lectures ===
{{Main article|Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion}}

Hegel's ''Encyclopedia'' includes a section on the Revealed Religion, but it is quite short. It is his Berlin [[Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion|Lectures]] that contain his next presentation of Christianity, which he variously refers to as the "consummate," "absolute," or "revelatory" religion (all equivalent terms in this context).{{sfn|Hodgson|1985|pp=3–4}} Transcripts of three of Hegel's four courses have been preserved, and they show him to be continually adjusting his emphases and exposition.{{efn|These changes are documented in the Introductions to Peter C. Hodgson's three-volume translation of the critical edition of the ''Lectures'' (University of California Press).}} The interpretation of Christianity that he advances, however, is still very much that which he presented in the ''Phenomenology'' – only now he is able to expound at greater length and with greater clarity upon what he had covered earlier in such a condensed fashion.{{sfn|Pinkard|2000|p=576}}{{sfn|Beiser|2005|p=139}}{{efn|For detailed accounts of this development see, for instance, {{harvnb|Fackenheim|1967|loc=ch. 5}}, or {{harvnb|Jaeschke|1990|loc=ch. 2–3}}.}}