God’s incarnation is both an instantaneous now and a necessary logical moment

Evidence

God exemplifies himself, calling on humans to imitate this very unrepeatability. God envisages himself as a moment. Through his incarnation he is able to see himself in this momentary form, where ‘moment’ is understood as an adverb of time (as if answering to the question ‘for how long?’ ‘A moment’). God ‘transplants (versetzt) himself into the world of time’, in the words of the Encyclopedia, and thus appears in time before himself. He sees himself as a moment, where ‘moment’ simply figures in apposition to ‘himself’ or ‘ipse’. (This is the speculative apposition because here God sees his ‘ipse’ – his reflection – as a moment.) He sees himself as a moment in the sense that ‘moment’ functions as an attribute of himself (he sees his own moment as himself). Finally, the ‘moment’ of the Incarnation (an Augenblick, a moment of time) is a necessary moment (Moment, in the logical sense) of the development of the absolute Idea. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 856

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes German Augenblick (moment of time) from Moment (logical moment) in God’s incarnation — a terminological distinction essential to the plasticity thesis.
• XREF: connects to: God’s incarnation makes divine being a necessary logical moment, not just a temporal event — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 856; God creates the very temporality into which the Incarnation enters — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 866; Incarnation instantiates the substance-subject movement within God himself — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 858 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• God’s incarnation makes divine being a necessary logical moment, not just a temporal event #corroborates (0.92) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 856
• God creates the very temporality into which the Incarnation enters #expands (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 866
• Incarnation is the universal divine substance being transplanted into temporality. #exemplifies (0.75)
• Incarnation instantiates the substance-subject movement within God himself #corroborates (0.70) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 858