The concept of God in Hegel

In the paper, I read Hegel's declaration that "God is dead" as the claim that God as absolute spirit is the ultimate horizon of a particular community's self-understanding. Neither "God" nor "spirit" in Hegel refer to a transcendent entity or teleological guarantee of sense, but only to the communitarian practice of sense making. In the case of absolute spirit, the community makes sense of its practices of sense making. In religion, this self-reference is presented as something divine. Hegel reads this divinity as a remainder of problematic metaphysics to be sublated in his concept of God.