God’s incomprehensibility means he exceeds knowledge, not that reason fails him.
Evidence
When the different writers we have been looking at invoke the idea of the ‘incomprehensibility’ of God, they resist any implication of obscurity, obscurantism, or unintelligibility. They do not contrast what Hegel calls the ‘homely pictures of faith’ to speculative insight. They concentrate on what, in God, cannot be comprehended, what cannot be seized, possessed, or assimilated. Not because spirit – by some flaw, by some fallibility – is impotent to constitute the divine as object of knowledge, but because he is not simply a matter for knowledge. God is not a concept. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 744
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines the theologians’ ‘incomprehensibility’ of God as superabundance beyond knowledge, not hiddenness from a defective reason.
- XREF: connects to: A God who fully reveals himself can never give himself as a gift.; God’s incomprehensibility is a matter of order, not of knowledge’s limits; God’s incomprehensibility means he resists possession, not that reason fails (+6 more)
Broader Connections
- God’s incomprehensibility is a matter of order, not of knowledge’s limits
#expands(0.95) - God’s incomprehensibility means he resists possession, not that reason fails
#responds-to(0.90) - Theological mystery is God’s mode of self-appearing, not a cognitive failure.
#expands(0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 746 - Falling into negation is God’s highest eminence, not his diminishment
#complicates(0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1259 - God’s fall is the highest form of his eminence, not his diminishment
#complicates(0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1259 - Malabou’s limit of knowledge may coincide with theological unintelligibility
#complicates(0.75) - Idealism denies objective knowledge and makes God a creation of the intellect.
#complicates(0.75) - Theologians object that subjecting God to the concept denies his creative freedom
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