It's particularly annoying to discover that the Trinitarian theology of Dumitru Staniloae is really just some warmed over Hegelian whimsy. Hegel Hegel Hegel - he's everywhere, can't get away from him.
If you see Hegel walking toward you, you might attempt in vain to kill him, only to end up reflecting that your encounter with him as a Thou is a moment of Self-Reflection and thus Awakening to the Spirit, or some such. Hegel eludes me I'm afraid, so that's the best you'll get.
The truth is, Hegel is like one of those ridiculous horror movie avatars, Jason or Freddie, who just will not die. Just when you think you've once and for all dismembered Hegel's silly arguments; just when you relax, weeping, in the happy thought that it's all over; Hegel at that moment will sit up in the background, turn toward you, and raise his hand to commence a lecture.
Hegel will always be with us. Would Napoleon had never marched through Jena.
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