Incarnation binds God and humanity in the shared experience of passing time

Evidence

‘Plastic’ individuality elevates itself – an ascending movement – to its own relief and acquires the constancy of essence. Habit enables the incarnation of the divine in the human, and the human in the divine, an incarnation which Greek sculpture presents to the senses. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1257 (#expands, via linked claim)

The future does not lie ahead of us like some unexplored land, separated from the present by a sharp boundary line, but rather we live continually in a border region which belongs as much to the future as to the present. All theories which locate the essence of human spirit in the will simply say that spiritual existence projects out beyond its narrow present, so to speak, that the future is already reality within it. … Time is life seen apart from its contents, because life alone transcends the atemporal present of every other kind of reality in both directions and thereby realizes, all by itself, the temporal dimension, that is, time. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 808 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: God creates the very temporality into which the Incarnation enters — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 866; God’s incarnation makes divine being a necessary logical moment, not just a temporal event — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 856; God’s kenosis gives philosophic subjectivity its temporal form (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Habit enables the incarnation of the divine in the human #expands (0.82) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1257
• Life alone realizes time by transcending the present in both directions #expands (0.78) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 808
• Hegel inscribes time, not lack, within God by identifying God with transcendental imagination #expands (0.75)