eligion. Yet the basic teachings of Jesus were once in keeping with accord with the truths of philosophy, as expressed most completely by Kant, raising the question of how the positivist elements were inserted. Hegel seeks an answer and endeavors to both align the teachings of Jesus and the reason of Kant and to discard the extraneous elements of positivism in the process. He finds that Jesus was forced to garb his teachings in positivist elements so that his listeners would understand him, and this was because the Jews to which he spoke lived not in a world of true morality or reason, but in a world of authority and superstition. What happened, unfortunately, was that what Jesus intended to be a method of the moment was perpetuated so that the living free morality of each man--the heart of Jesus' teaching--was lost amid the donned garb of positivist elements intended only to be expedient measures. The means became the ends.
The chief flaw in the positivity of Chr
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