It is just such “legitimacy” that licenses Westerners to praise the “achievements” of the Stalins and Maos who actually inflict the tragedies of history. How dreadfully ironic that the new era heralded by Hegel should be one of unparalleled suffering and terror. Providence, grace, moral law— these are hypotheses of which the ideologue has no need. Molnar means to probe the epistemological sources of such hubris.
He begins by anatomizing the various stances philosophers have taken with respect to God. The proper one is Judaeo-Christian: God is transcendent, yet personal, making real claims upon his creatures. Others have made him so remote astobeofno account in human considerations; still others make him so immanent as to subvert all individuation, personality, and creation itself.
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