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Abstract
Revelation according to Schelling is not the possession of any institutional form of Christianity; it is not even bound to faith or confession.Rather, revelation disseminates itself freely and universally throughout history.It now inextricably permeates modernity.Schelling's philosophy of revelation does not look backwards to an event in the first century of the common era, it looks forward to the genuine singularity, the moment when humanity will become adequate to the divine subjectivity which lives in it.The event will inaugurate the final form of human community, "the Church of St. John," a community of genuine freedom and equality, which will succeed all previous forms of the Church, and indeed, the State.The establishment of this community of the future is the penultimate eschaton proclaimed by Paul and the author or the Book of Revelation, the age of righteousness prior to the general resurrection. 1By bringing mythological consciousness to an end and drawing real limits to rationalism (idealism), revelation first establishes a free relation of the human being to the divine.At the same time, revelation liberates philosophy and culture from religion and inaugurates secular consciousness.History, according to the late Schelling, which he undeniably reads Eurocentrically, is moving toward this third age of revelation (after Catholicism and Protestantism), in which all of humanity will pass over into absolute or true monotheism (Trinitarianism).With the universalization of the revelation, the free and philosophical appropriation of its content (what Schelling somewhat misleadingly calls "philosophical religion"), all historical forms of religion will be overcome, including, it should be added, all historical forms of institutional Christianity.The complete secularization of the world will be 1 See 1 Cor 15: 20-28; Rev 20:1-6.The end of history described in these New Testament texts predicts an age of righteousness, in which the Church will rule the world-the millennium prior to the Last Judgment and thematized by millenarians, such as Joachim of Fiore.In this age of the Church to come, the world will be united "in spirit and truth" (Jn 4:23) and a political transformation of this earth will ensue.In carrying this line of Biblical interpretation forward into a secular key, Schelling is a major figure in utopian thought and has had a significant influence on Ernst Bloch and Franz Rosenzweig, among others.On millenarianism, see Ernst Benz, Evolution and Christian Hope: Man's Concept of the Future from the Early Father's to Teilhard de Chardin (Garden City: New York: Doubleday, 1966), 10ff.achieved, and the sundered human community unified, without expense of historical or cultural diversity.This is Schelling's final philosophy of religion, one that he argued for and developed over the course of two decades of lecturing on positive philosophy. 2 In this paper I will assume that this position is a plausible interpretation of what Schelling refers to as the fact of Christianity, the world-historical event of the Christ, an event which includes not only the history of the Church but above all the emergence of modernity from the interaction of Greek, Catholic, and Protestant thought. 3I have commented upon Schelling's vision of the secular end of Christianity in other contexts and will not repeat myself here. 4 My intention in this paper is to deploy Schelling's philosophy of religion as a tool of contemporary cultural critique.Given his commitment to global secular religion and the ultimate succession of the liberal nation-state by the final form of human community, the Church of St. John, 5 what would Schelling say about the related political 2 Schelling's positive philosophy refers to the cycle of lectures on mythology and revelation which occupied him from 1831 until his death in 1854.The positive philosophy was never officially published in his lifetime, although an unofficial version, the so-called "Paulus Nachschrift," was published against Schelling's wishes in 1843.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".