本文檢視宗教哲學在黑格爾的哲學預備教育中的合理化。它描述黑格爾的思想基礎以及宗教哲學在他的體系中的地位，並且比較黑格爾對於宗教改革遺產所做的反省。本文的結論是黑格爾的體系代表歐陸哲學和新教神學的分水嶺，因為它改變了聖經的地位，並且使十九世紀的新教脫離其原本的原則。

This article examines the legitimization of the philosophy of religion in Hegel's Propaedeutic. It describes the foundations of Hegel's thought and the place of the philosophy of religion within his system, and it compares Hegel’s reflections to the legacy of the Reformation. The paper will conclude that Hegel's system represented a landmark not only in continental philosophy but also in Protestant theology, as it altered the position of Scripture and detached nineteenth-century Protestantism from the original principles of the Reformation.