For Hegel, God’s death is an internal moment of God’s own development.

Evidence

The Death of God appears as a moment of God’s being. As such, the concept is intuited immediately as something necessary for consciousness. Revealed Religion differentiates itself from other religions precisely through this insight into the necessity of development, within which substance completes itself as self-consciousness, ‘and for that it is spirit’. This development is precisely the speculative meaning of kenosis. In it, the simple being of substance ‘alienates itself from itself, yields to death, and thereby reconciles absolute essence with itself’. Christ’s Death is thus at once the death of the God-man and the Death of the initial and immediate abstraction of the divine being which is not yet posited as a Self. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 774

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines kenosis as the speculative moment within which substance’s simple being alienates itself and reconciles absolute essence with itself — a key term for the plasticity reading.
• XREF: This reads God’s death as development/plasticity, directly parallel to the reader’s brain-work framing of plasticity as self-negation and formation. — connects to: Reading Hegel without Luther leaves one blind to the phrase God himself is dead — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 153; The death of God can be read as God saying farewell to himself — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 148; For Hegel the death of God lodges negation within God’s own being — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 154 (+8 more)
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source

Broader Connections

• Hegel uniquely read the Death of God as divine self-negation #corroborates (0.95)
• God’s self-emptying is a founding and not merely a diminishment for Hegel #expands (0.90) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1258