In Revealed Religion God is beheld directly as an actual individual man

Evidence

In ‘natural religion’ (the religion of the Parsees and early Indian religions), ‘spirit knows itself as its object in a natural or immediate shape’. In the ‘religion of art’ (Greek religion), consciousness produces itself in the form of a ‘Self’, so that when consciousness admires its object, it is in fact intuiting itself, as we see in the beauty of classical art. Here ‘naturality’ (Naturalität), formerly the religious object for spirit, is annulled. But it is for the first time in Revealed Religion that the spirit’s attainment of self-knowledge is actually incarnated in a man, a determinate self. From this point on, spirit becomes selfconsciousness while the divine essence becomes human. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 770 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Desire is a lack of being. As such it is directly supported by the being of which it is a lack. This being, as we have said, is the in-itself-for-itself, consciousness become substance, substance become the cause of itself, the Man-God. Thus the being of human reality is originally not a substance but a lived relation. The limiting terms of this relation are first the original In-itself, fixed in its contingency and its facticity, its essential characteristic being that it is, that it exists; and second the In-itself-for-itself or value, which exists as the Ideal of the contingent In-itself and which is characterized as beyond all contingency and all existence. Man is neither the one nor the other of these beings, for strictly speaking, we should never say of him that he is at all. He is what he is not and he is not what he is; he is the nihilation of the contingent In-itself in so far as the self of this nihilation is its flight ahead toward the In-itself as selfcause. Human reality is the pure effort to become God without there being any given substratum for that effort, without there being anything which so endeavours. Desire expresses this endeavour. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1348 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Deifying an actually present man guarantees torment because he is not God — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1866; God is both the subject doing the exposition and the subject being constituted; True religion is pure self-revelation that leaves no secret residue behind — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 653 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Revealed religion alone incarnates spirit’s self-knowledge in a determinate man #corroborates (0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 770
• Human reality is the pure effort to become God, desire being its expression #expands (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1348