A God who reveals everything withholds nothing, hence cannot give anything.

Evidence

If God reveals himself incessantly and unreservedly, holding nothing back, he is never, in reality, giving himself. Under such conditions, he could not make a ‘present’ of himself. In his study of Hegel’s Christology, Emilio Brito asserts: ‘The Hegelian God is exhaustively manifest; as a result, He is completely hidden.’ — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 686

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s brain/plasticity work via the paradoxical logic of manifestation — what is fully open can also be fully concealed, a useful figure for neural transparency debates. — connects to: A God bound by conceptual logic can give nothing freely.; The concept of a needy God is internally contradictory — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 180; Theologians object that subjecting God to the concept denies his creative freedom
• QUESTION: Why does Brito’s claim that exhaustive manifestation equals complete hiddenness not collapse into mere paradox? Worth chasing the kenosis literature.
• SEED: Article angle: ‘Full transparency as total concealment’ — the paradox that a fully self-revealing system gives nothing to receive.

Broader Connections

• A God bound by conceptual logic can give nothing freely. #expands (0.90)
• The concept of a needy God is internally contradictory #contradicts (0.75) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 180
• Theologians object that subjecting God to the concept denies his creative freedom #responds-to (0.75)