Luther’s translation of kenosis founded the Hegelian dialectic’s technical vocabulary.

Evidence

By translating kenosis by Entäußerung (‘the separation of the Self through an externalization’), Luther designates a sort of exit outside one’s self in one’s self, a farewell to one’s self, an abandonment of one’s self. A taking leave of one’s self in one’s self. And most of all he opens the way for a tradition in which the Hegelian dialectic inscribes itself (originary division of judgement, alienation, exteriorization, exit of God outside of himself: Entzweiung, Entfremdung, Entäußerung) and out of which the great modern discourse on the ‘death of God’ would lose its meaning and its memory. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 151

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s enmity/plasticity thread: the self’s exit-outside-itself-in-itself is precisely the plastic structure of receptivity-activity Derrida keeps folding.

Related

• Luther’s rendering of kenosis as Entäußerung seeded the Hegelian dialectic (similarity 0.94)
• Hegel reversed his own earlier view that humanity in God is a blemish (similarity 0.79)
• Hegel reversed his early rejection of kenosis into its philosophical necessity (similarity 0.79)
• Hegel subordinates God to the necessity of the dialectic (similarity 0.78)