Divine mystery is God’s mode of appearing, not hiddenness from reason
Evidence
The suffering of God and the suffering of human subjectivity deprived of God must be analysed as the recto and verso of the same event. There is a fundamental relationship between divine kenosis and the tendency of modern reason to posit a beyond which remains inaccessible. The Encyclopedia makes this relation visible by presenting the Death of God at once as the Passion of the Son who ‘dies in the pain of negativity’ and the human feeling that we can know nothing of God. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 758 (
#expands, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: The Christian existentialists shared a faith in mystery that Heidegger kept in secular form — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 634; God’s incomprehensibility means he resists possession, not that reason fails; Divine kenosis and reason’s inaccessible beyond are one and the same event — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 758 (+2 more)
Related
- Divine kenosis and reason’s inaccessible beyond are one and the same event (similarity 0.88)
- Theological mystery is God’s mode of self-appearing, not a cognitive failure. (similarity 0.88)
- God’s incomprehensibility means he exceeds knowledge, not that reason fails him. (similarity 0.84)
- God becomes God only through self-externalizing fall, not despite it (similarity 0.79)
- Hegel’s critique of reified divine presence paradoxically enables a more intimate possession of God (similarity 0.79)
- God’s self-identity is differentiated and not empty even in pure thought (similarity 0.79)
- God’s incomprehensibility is a matter of order, not of knowledge’s limits (similarity 0.79)
- The Christian existentialists shared a faith in mystery that Heidegger kept in secular form (similarity 0.79)
- Hegel uniquely read the Death of God as divine self-negation (similarity 0.78)
- Kenosis as the Incarnation’s mystery is the supreme expression of Christ’s paradox (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Divine kenosis and reason’s inaccessible beyond are one and the same event
#expands(0.82) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 758 - Kenosis as the Incarnation’s mystery is the supreme expression of Christ’s paradox
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