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In his Bonn lectures of 1932–1933 on Protestant theology, Karl Barth initiated a masterly confrontation with Hegel and the “self-confidence” of human thought and the “event of reason” that stand at the center of his work. Hegel, better than theologians, was also the thinker of God’s majesty and lordship, but he did not conceive, at the center of truth, “the inconceivable of God.”