Hegel’s God is necessarily self-revealing and incapable of envy

Evidence

According to Hegel, Christianity is the religion that has become absolute manifestation, without any secret residue: ‘It lies essentially in the concept of religion – the religion whose content is absolute spirit – that it be revealed and, what is more, revealed by God.’ This implies necessarily that ‘God is out and out manifestation’ and that it is not possible to ascribe envy to God. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 653

Categorization

• DEFINE: Spells out the formal definition of absolute religion as Selbstoffenbarung — self-revelation with no withheld residue.
• XREF: The denial of God’s envy echoes the Greek theoi aphthonoi theme (Plato/Timaeus) that Malabou already flagged at 655 as the ancient precedent. — connects to: Hegel’s divine self-determination threatens God’s creative freedom for theological readers.