Negativity is essential to God because God must produce Himself.

Evidence

If we insistently stress this relation, it is because it allows us to show that for Hegel, the divine negativity, conceived in its most radical form, does not manifest the lack or the passivity, but rather the plasticity of God. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 759 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

The suffering of God and the suffering of human subjectivity deprived of God must be analysed as the recto and verso of the same event. There is a fundamental relationship between divine kenosis and the tendency of modern reason to posit a beyond which remains inaccessible. The Encyclopedia makes this relation visible by presenting the Death of God at once as the Passion of the Son who ‘dies in the pain of negativity’ and the human feeling that we can know nothing of God. … If we insistently stress this relation, it is because it allows us to show that for Hegel, the divine negativity, conceived in its most radical form, does not manifest the lack or the passivity, but rather the plasticity of God. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 758 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Hegel makes negativity intrinsic to God’s self-production, implying an originary lack; For God to create, God must suffer lack rather than be superabundant — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 682; God’s inner negativity is the passivity of time itself, hence plasticity — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 825 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Hegel makes negativity intrinsic to God’s self-production, implying an originary lack #corroborates (1.00)
• Hegel’s radical divine negativity expresses God’s plasticity, not lack or passivity #contradicts (0.90) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 758
• Divine negativity manifests plasticity, not lack or passivity #contradicts (0.90) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 759
• For God to create, God must suffer lack rather than be superabundant #expands (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 682
• God’s inner negativity is the passivity of time itself, hence plasticity #qualifies (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 825
• The concept of a needy God is internally contradictory #contradicts (0.75) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 180
• Theologians reject negativity inside God just as they rejected negativity within Aristotle’s Prime Mover #corroborates (0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 636