A fully self-transparent God can neither occur nor arrive, and so cannot promise

Evidence

The claim that Hegel’s God lacks a future is based, in the final instance, on three main arguments. First, according to the theologians, the transparency implied by the speculative concept of self-revelation is a transparency without surprise. In so far as the dialectical process of God’s coming to himself assumes the sublation of the temporal form intrinsic to the representational process, it would seem that God can neither occur nor arrive. The necessity to which the Entäußerung of the movement of kenosis is submitted, is a necessity which deprives the Father of his fullest possibilities. Accordingly, Hegel’s God is a God who does not promise. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 752

Categorization

• XREF: Arousal of the enmity question: a figure fully determinate and without internal reserve cannot surprise; the enemy gains explosive agency precisely through opaque reserve rather than transparency. — connects to: A God who fully reveals himself can never give himself as a gift.