For God to create, God must suffer lack rather than be superabundant

Evidence

In the Encyclopedia Hegel makes the point that the world, as created, is ‘separated by its Entäußerung from the divine being’. For the theologians, this dialectical interpretation of Entäußerung introduces lack into God and ruins the superabundance of the Father. … As far as faith: in the Encyclopedia, Hegel thinks of faith as the movement by which the believer ‘throws off (entäußert) his immediacy, his natural man and his self-will, to close himself in unity with that example (Christ)’. Through this alienation, the believer repeats the movement of kenosis. As the theologians see it, the attitude of the believer theorized in this way no longer includes the expectation of God. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 682

Categorization

• XREF: Links to earlier chapters on God’s self-distance founding history and on God’s alienation being simultaneously receptive and spontaneous plasticity — the same Entäußerung machinery now read through the theologians’ objection. — connects to: Negativity is essential to God because God must produce Himself.; Dialectical necessity inscribes lack into divine potentiality, producing a consuming God. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 688; God’s revelation originates from lack and necessity, not abundance or love.
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source