A God who is fully present may never actually happen

Evidence

From the emptiness of its first conception to the closure of its syllogistic conclusion, the Hegelian God may make himself present without ever happening. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 755

Categorization

Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims

• APHORISMS: Shows that presence and genuine occurrence (eventhood) are separable — being fully present is compatible with never happening.
• SEED: Potential angle for the enemy thread: a ‘present without happening’ figure is simultaneously there and not an agent, condensing the plastic passivity/explosiveness tension.

Related

• Hegel’s God can present itself yet never truly happen (similarity 0.93)
• A fully self-transparent God can neither occur nor arrive, and so cannot promise (similarity 0.86)
• Theologians reject Hegel because concept-bound God loses transcendence and power to promise. (similarity 0.82)
• A God who fully reveals himself can never give himself as a gift. (similarity 0.81)
• Hegel’s critique of reified presence inadverteny produces the immediacy it forbids (similarity 0.81)
• Hegel’s dialectical God paradoxically becomes more immanently present than the Eucharistic host. (similarity 0.80)
• A fully self-comprehending spirit can never face the event (similarity 0.80)
• God’s fall is the highest form of his eminence, not his diminishment (similarity 0.80)
• God’s identity with transcendental imagination guarantees his future rather than his lack (similarity 0.80)
• Speculative theology’s completion requires an original passivity in God. (similarity 0.79)
• Hegel’s God of absolute presence requires an original passivity foreshadowed by Origen (similarity 0.79)
• God’s self-alienation paradoxically offers no genuine outside to escape into (similarity 0.79)