Was Hegel a humanistic atheist or a serious Christian thinker? Both positions have been maintained over the years, but neither is true posits the author, who calls Hegel a philosophical theist. Jamros has explicated all of the religious passages in the Phenomenology in more detail than has ever been done before. Divided into three sections on orientation, faith, and morality, the book offers serious readers a new understanding of a major philosophical mind. The Human Shape of God makes a major contribution to the study of Hegel, the philosophy of religion, and German thought.