Christian mysticism anticipated the death-of-God idea two centuries before Luther

Evidence

Meister Eckhart states: ‘God is dead in order for me to die in regard to the entire world and in the face of all created realities.’ — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 763

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: Reinforces the earlier claim that Luther’s kenosis rendering seeded the Hegelian dialectic — here the lineage is pushed further back to Eckhart and the mystical tradition.
• SEED: Eckhart’s inversion — God dies so that I may die to all created reality — is a compact specimen of enmity’s grammar (an origin that must negate itself to found), useful for the friend/enemy thread.

Related

• The Death of God doctrine long preceded Hegel within Christian theology and mysticism. (similarity 0.86)
• Hegel alone read the death of death as a negation of negation (similarity 0.81)
• Hegel reversed his own earlier view that humanity in God is a blemish (similarity 0.80)
• For Hegel, God’s death is an internal moment of God’s own development. (similarity 0.79)
• Hegel takes God’s death as the most frightful thought but a necessary philosophical one. (similarity 0.79)