Human representation of God is grounded in God’s prior self-representation

Evidence

What appears from this passage is that consciousness only represents God because God re-presents himself; consciousness is only at a distance from God because God distances himself from himself. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 163

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

Related

• Consciousness’s distance from God mirrors and derives from God’s own self-distancing (similarity 0.92)
• Religious representation itself is constituted by consciousness’s alienation from God (similarity 0.87)
• God’s self-knowledge occurs through human self-consciousness and knowledge of God (similarity 0.85)
• For Hegel God’s essence includes self-representation and being-for-itself (similarity 0.84)
• The Christian God is the primal speculative instance because he reflects on himself. (similarity 0.84)
• God’s self-identity is differentiated and not empty even in pure thought (similarity 0.83)
• God’s self-gaze divides the divine self by perspectival distance (similarity 0.82)
• Sublating sensuous immediacy leaves God presented to knowledge as representation (similarity 0.82)
• For Hegel spirit is not merely self-contained thought but essentially self-revelation and objectivity (similarity 0.81)
• Self-presence requires an internal separation that is itself nothing (similarity 0.81)
• Hegel uniquely read the Death of God as divine self-negation (similarity 0.81)
• God can be transcendent as pure difference without being an otherworldly entity (similarity 0.81)
• Scholars have evaded the origin of representation’s form-giving role in Hegel’s religion (similarity 0.81)
• Hegel’s critique of reified divine presence paradoxically enables a more intimate possession of God (similarity 0.81)
• Divine self-presence is opened up by an internal distance rather than merely broken (similarity 0.80)