God’s fall is the highest form of his eminence, not his diminishment

Evidence

Philosophers who see a diminishment of God (yet God, without his incline, would be no more than an abstract and impoverished concept) in the necessity of this decline (involved as much in the essence of the Aristotelian θες as that of the God of Revelation) are missing the profound originality of Hegel’s thought. To introduce a negativity in God which puts him into motion and makes possible his flexing, is undoubtedly the highest possible way of imagining his eminence, the condition and dimension of his fall. Hegel is a thinker for whom the movement of falling is not a degeneration in the ordinary sense of the word, but a term of expiration – something which falls due. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1259

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• XREF: connects to: God’s incomprehensibility means he exceeds knowledge, not that reason fails him. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 744; Falling into negation is God’s highest eminence, not his diminishment — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1259; God becomes God only through self-externalizing fall, not despite it — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1258