Protestantism’s rejection of finite mediation makes the infinite abstract and unreachable

Evidence

But paradoxically, in so doing, Protestant religion has built a rigid and insurmountable opposition between subjectivity in its urge towards the eternal, and the eternal itself. Lacking finite mediation, infinity remains immediate and abstract. The very foundation of Lutheranism – its disdain for all identification between God and empirical reality as such – turns back against itself. It is threatened with the prospect of ineffectuality, because the scorn it expresses makes any reconciliation between the finite and the infinite impossible. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 802

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the plasticity-through-negation theme running through her whole project — the dialectical reversal where a stance turns against itself is the core of her Hegelian plastic reading. — connects to: A position built on denying mediation paradoxically produces direct immediacy and rigid opposition — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 802; Dogmatism and exclusivism travel with religion but are not religion — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 517; Dialectical theology rejected liberal Protestantism by insisting on humanity’s incompatibility with God — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 400 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• A position built on denying mediation paradoxically produces direct immediacy and rigid opposition #corroborates (0.82) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 802
• Dogmatism and exclusivism travel with religion but are not religion #complicates (0.72) — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 517