God’s alienation and philosophical reason’s negativity are the same movement

Evidence

For all their insight, these interpretations of Hegel’s religious thought are nevertheless illegitimate. In Hegel’s philosophy, as it happens, neither the subjectivity of a revealed God nor the modern philosophical notion of the subject can be seen in isolation. Yet the theologians persist in disassociating them. De facto, the notion of divine alienation detached from its philosophical replica, where alienation is understood as a movement of and within reason, could certainly point to a lack. The negativity at play within the essence of the divine, if we were to separate it from its philosophical destiny (advenir), can clearly appear as the sign of an absence of future. Nonetheless this apparent shortage of futurity and the lack it implies will cease to be relevant when the divine subject and the subject of modern philosophy are restored to one another. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 756

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishing that divine negativity is not separable from philosophical alienation constitutes the interpretive key Malabou reads across.
• XREF: connects to: Divine alienation is simultaneously receptivity and spontaneity in God. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 647; Theologians reject negativity inside God just as they rejected negativity within Aristotle’s Prime Mover — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 636; Hegel’s critics reject the introduction of negativity into God and the Trinity (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Divine kenosis and reason’s inaccessible beyond are one and the same event #corroborates (0.90) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 758
• Theologians reject negativity inside God just as they rejected negativity within Aristotle’s Prime Mover #expands (0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 636
• Religious representation itself is constituted by consciousness’s alienation from God #expands (0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 684
• God’s alienation is at once receptivity and spontaneity, receiving the form He gives #expands (0.82) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 647
• Hegel’s critics reject the introduction of negativity into God and the Trinity #expands (0.80)
• God’s self-alienation paradoxically offers no genuine outside to escape into #expands (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 753
• Aristotle adds negativity to the Idea not as change but as difference #expands (0.78) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 479
• Hegel’s radical divine negativity expresses God’s plasticity, not lack or passivity #qualifies (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 758
• Hegelian negativity belongs to the Greek modality of the non-existent-that-might-be #expands (0.75)
• Dialectical theology held faith as risk with humanity and God incompatibly opposed #qualifies (0.72) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 400