In a previously cited essay published in 1842, which was intended to clarify the differences between Hegel’s philosophy of religion and his own, Feuerbach referred readers seeking to evaluate his argument in The Essence of Christianity to his “Critique of the So-Called Positive Philosophy”, published in the Halle Annals in December, 1838 (B 235). It was there that Feuerbach first put forward the claim that all the “determinations” (Bestimmungen) ascribed by the positive philosophy to God are det