God’s incarnation makes divine being a necessary logical moment, not just a temporal event

Evidence

This moment is singular and unique, occurring only once, and in this uniqueness acquiring its absolute and exemplary value. 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. Within God is revealed a speculative play of the divine with itself that translates his being into a multiplicity of moments, moments of time. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 856

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes the everyday temporal ‘moment’ (Augenblick) from the logical sense of ‘moment’ (Moment, as a necessary stage of the Notion/Idea) — a genuinely useful terminological distinction.
• XREF: Directly feeds the reader’s plasticity concept: the logical Moment as a necessary stage of development is precisely the machinery plasticity needs for the becoming-accidental of essence. — connects to: God creates the very temporality into which the Incarnation enters — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 866; Incarnation binds God and humanity in the shared experience of passing time; Kenosis as the Incarnation’s mystery is the supreme expression of Christ’s paradox (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• God creates the very temporality into which the Incarnation enters #corroborates (0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 866
• Incarnation binds God and humanity in the shared experience of passing time #corroborates (0.75)