Hegel’s dialectical kenosis contradicts Lutheran divine freedom because it runs on negation

Evidence

Yet even Lutheran theologians would not recognize the validity of such a conception of kenosis. Since it derives its impetus from the energy of the negative and not from the originary superabundance of God, the dialectical Entäußerung contradicts the freedom of the divine. From this vantage point, the sending of the Son would no longer be a gratuitous act, or an act of love. It is on these grounds that Ernst Jüngel, despite his belief in Hegel’s fidelity to the Lutheran doctrine of kenosis, points to a principle of profound dissonance. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 697

Yet even Lutheran theologians would not recognize the validity of such a conception of kenosis. Since it derives its impetus from the energy of the negative and not from the originary superabundance of God, the dialectical Entäußerung contradicts the freedom of the divine. From this vantage point, the sending of the Son would no longer be a gratuitous act, or an act of love. It is on these grounds that Ernst Jüngel, despite his belief in Hegel’s fidelity to the Lutheran doctrine of kenosis, points to a principle of profound dissonance. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 697

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the crux distinguishing dialectical Entäußerung (driven by the negative) from Lutheran kenosis (driven by divine superabundance) — a foundational conceptual distinction.
• XREF: Connects to the book’s core thesis that plasticity is driven by the energy of the negative — the mechanism animating Hegel’s God-figure mirrors the mechanism in the plasticity concept. — connects to: Both Hegel and Heidegger fail to ground negation in a negative being — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 216; Reading Hegel without Luther leaves one blind to the phrase God himself is dead — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 153; Luther’s rendering of kenosis as Entäußerung seeded the Hegelian dialectic — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 151 (+9 more)
• QUESTION: Jüngel’s ‘profound dissonance’ — where does the energy-of-the-negative reading leave the possibility of uncoerced love? Informs my friend/enemy question via the divine/slavish agency axis.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 697

Broader Connections

• For Hegel the death of God lodges negation within God’s own being #expands (0.95) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 154
• Hegel holds pure being and pure nothingness to be the same #corroborates (0.75)