Hegel was the first to philosophize the Death of God as God’s self-negation

Evidence

The feeling that ‘God himself is dead’ must be understood as a moment of the supreme Idea. Before Hegel, no one had philosophically interpreted the Death of God as the event of his self-negation, that is, as a moment of truth within God himself. Faith and Knowledge, the Phenomenology of Spirit and the Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion are the three essential texts where this interpretation is developed and elaborated. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 765

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines what distinguishes Hegel’s Death of God: the death is a moment inside God, a self-negation, not an external event.
• XREF: connects to: Hegel maps Incarnation, Death, and Resurrection onto the S-P-U syllogism of determinate being. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 670; The Incarnation and Christ’s death are Hegel’s model for God’s genuine self-alienation as otherness — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 682; The Death of God doctrine long preceded Hegel within Christian theology and mysticism. (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• For Hegel the death of God lodges negation within God’s own being #corroborates (1.00) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 154
• Hegel uniquely read the Death of God as divine self-negation #corroborates (0.98)
• For Hegel, God’s death is an internal moment of God’s own development. #corroborates (0.95) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 774
• Hegel positioned modern God’s-death feeling as a moment of the Idea #expands (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 766
• Hegel’s radical divine negativity expresses God’s plasticity, not lack or passivity #qualifies (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 758
• God’s self-emptying is a founding and not merely a diminishment for Hegel #expands (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1258
• Hegel alone read the death of death as a negation of negation #qualifies (0.75)
• Hegel makes negativity intrinsic to God’s self-production, implying an originary lack #qualifies (0.75)