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Robert Brandom has a famous book: Making It Explicit, in which he develops some Hegelian themes in application to some problems that arise in analytic philosophy. The name of the book shows its indebtedness to Hegel, because Hegel's philosophy is all about the way in which Spirit makes itself manifest. Hegel was influenced by Jakob Boehme, a Lutheran mystic. Maybe that had something to do with his idea of the way that Spirit makes itself explicit. I think this is an idea that crosses denominational lines. It is a theme that can be found in Mawlana Jalal al-Din Rumi, for example. He writes:
What is this testimony? To make the hidden manifest, whether through words, deeds, or something else. For the goal is to make manifest the hidden secret of your substance: Its attribute will remain, but these accidents will pass.... This prayer, spiritual warfare, and fasting do not remain: The spirit remains with a good name. (Mathnavi V 246-247, cited in Chittick's The Sufi Path of Love, p. 89.)
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