God becomes God only through self-externalizing fall, not despite it
Evidence
In the modern moment, the slope of the subject corresponds to the sending of the Son, an inclination which is also the inclination of the Father towards the Son. Through his act of falling – the descending movement – God shows himself to himself and completes thereby the movement of his proposition. He proceeds and results from this slope, and is not God except through its foundation. Hegel gives the ‘ex’ of ‘ecstasy’ all the dynamic meaning it possesses, making kenosis truly appear as a movement of departure and abasement of the Self in its fall. Alienation or externalization, the possibility of being other than it is, exists always for substance, provoking this ‘relief’ of the human in the divine, the divine in the human. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1258
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines the modern moment of plasticity as the Son’s descent, grounding kenosis/ecstasy as dynamic self-movement rather than loss.
- XREF: connects to: God’s revelation originates from lack and necessity, not abundance or love.; Falling into negation is God’s highest eminence, not his diminishment — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1259; God becomes spirit only through self-differentiation that is eternally sublated in return (+5 more)
Broader Connections
- God’s fall is the highest form of his eminence, not his diminishment
#corroborates(0.95) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1259 - God becomes spirit only through self-differentiation that is eternally sublated in return
#exemplifies(0.90) - God’s self-alienation manifests a new mode of time, not lack
#expands(0.82) - Creation is God’s self-dislocation into alterity and rupture
#expands(0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 667 - Incarnation instantiates the substance-subject movement within God himself
#exemplifies(0.78) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 858 - God’s self-identity is differentiated and not empty even in pure thought
#qualifies(0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 663