God and Man in History. The influence of Jakob Böhme and G. W. F. Hegel on Ferdinand Christian Baur’s Philosophical Understanding of Religion as Gnosis

Ferdinand Christian Baur's thought about religion focuses on the idea of Gnosis in close connection with the notion of history, but rather than favor a traditional approach, he prefers a different path: a "new" understanding of religion which draws quite heavily on Hegel's philosophy, promoting the idea that history is the realm where God and man exist and work together.