Kenosis as the Incarnation’s mystery is the supreme expression of Christ’s paradox

Evidence

The temporality introduced in this curriculum vitae is none other than the temporality posited by the subject as ahead of itself (vor-stellt). … Now if Christ, as is claimed in the Encyclopedia, ‘involves himself in time’, this does not mean that he enters into a temporality which is already given, already there. The temporality he is involved with is a temporality whose very concept God has introduced. Indeed, He creates it. Without this correlative dimension of time, Revelation would not be a revelation. Without it, there would be no way of distinguishing the life of Christ from that of any other exemplary individual. By dying, Christ reveals to the Western world a new relation between spirit and finitude, in which death is the limitation (borne), the end of a linear series of moments linked one to the other. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 866 (#expands, via linked claim)

Lull used the traditional arguments that we have been considering, chiefly as they could be fitted into his favourite Trinitarian speculation. For example, the dishonour done to Christ’s mother by robbing her Son of His divinity outweighed the possible value of direct praise of her. Muslims’ praise of the humanity of Christ was vitiated in the same way: ‘the Muslims love Your humanity, in that they believe and understand that it was conceived by the Holy Ghost, and in that they believe that Your humanity was in this world without sin; but, Lord, in another way they do not love Your humanity …’ - that is, as united to the Godhead and as the means of salvation. He argued that, by rejection of the Incarnation, creation is honoured less, and, if creation, the Creator; this is an all but Chestertonian argument. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 959 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Divine mystery is God’s mode of appearing, not hiddenness from reason; God’s kenosis gives philosophic subjectivity its temporal form; God creates the very temporality into which the Incarnation enters — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 866 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• God’s kenosis gives philosophic subjectivity its temporal form #expands (0.78)
• God creates the very temporality into which the Incarnation enters #expands (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 866
• Ramon Lull argued Islam’s denial of Incarnation dishonors creation itself. #complicates (0.75) — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 959
• God’s incarnation makes divine being a necessary logical moment, not just a temporal event #expands (0.70) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 856