God becomes spirit only through self-differentiation that is eternally sublated in return

Evidence

The in itself and for itself of the eternal consists in its selfimparting (sich aufzuschließen), self-determining (zu bestimmen), in judging (zu urteilen) and positing itself in the form of a difference (sich als Unterscheidenes seiner zu stehen); but this difference, this distinction, is also always and eternally sublated, so that in and for itself the eternal is reconciled with itself in its return to self; only thus is it spirit. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 700

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: Christ’s kenotic self-imparting is glossed as self-determination, judging, and difference-generating reconciled in eternal return — the operative mechanism of the divine.

Related

• The eternal becomes spirit by self-differentiating and sublating its own difference (similarity 0.91)
• Divine self-identity already contains differentiation within itself. (similarity 0.85)
• God’s self-identity is differentiated and not empty even in pure thought (similarity 0.84)
• Spirit presents itself differently in nature, art, religion, and philosophy (similarity 0.83)
• God becomes God only through self-externalizing fall, not despite it (similarity 0.82)
• Sublating sensuous immediacy leaves God presented to knowledge as representation (similarity 0.81)
• Spirit develops by externalizing and returning to unite with itself (similarity 0.81)
• Spirit’s self-certainty requires the crushing of gods and men in prior epochs. (similarity 0.81)
• Each stage of spirit reduces to one dominant determination with others blurred (similarity 0.80)
• For Hegel spirit is not merely self-contained thought but essentially self-revelation and objectivity (similarity 0.80)
• Spirit’s revelation is the double externalization of concept into time and back into self (similarity 0.79)
• Spirit becomes subject only by fashioning substance as its own material. (similarity 0.79)
• Hegel uniquely read the Death of God as divine self-negation (similarity 0.79)
• Symbols present self-repetitive nature as eternal and endlessly renewed (similarity 0.78)
• God’s self-knowledge occurs through human self-consciousness and knowledge of God (similarity 0.78)