Hegel and Nietzsche: 'Death of God'

"For Nietzsche the idea of the death of God stood for the nihilistic process of the evisceration of all values in modernity, a process to which his doctrine of "eternal recurrence" was meant to respond. But this is paired with Chapter 10 on the less well-known Hegelian version of the idea that "God is dead". This initial pairing of Nietzsche and Hegel vis-à-vis their approaches to religion in the time of a collapse of a certain kind of religion, a form of Christianity built on a "legal-penal-juridical" picture of the world in which God is cast as a type of transcendent monarch, allows a comparison of the way they each responded to the "death of God" phenomenon by going back to  ancient tragic consciousness. Nietzsche uses this in a critical dismissal of Christianity, but Hegel uses it as a basis from which to reconstruct a new liberal and yet "tragic" version of Christianity."

From Paul Redding's review of Robert Williams' Tragedy, Recognition, and the Death of God: Studies in Hegel and Nietzsche