The Christian God’s vulnerability is what Greek art cannot represent

Evidence

Classical Greece presents the manifest and tangible forms of free individuality in all its serene and unbroken harmony; Greek art remains alien to the experience of heartbreak. The Christian God, on the other hand, is not only an individual gifted with a human form, but a human in actuality and act, exposed to all the vicissitudes of our existence. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 842

Categorization

• XREF: The dialectical move — divinity defined precisely by exposure to suffering — parallels Hegel’s dialectic of lordship and bondage that Malabou is tracing as the root of plasticity. — connects to: Greek culture’s wholeness is only graspable through the ideal of sculpture; Greek gods lack self-knowing inwardness while the Christian God discloses his inner being.; The concept of a needy God is internally contradictory — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 180 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Greek gods lack self-knowing inwardness while the Christian God discloses his inner being. #expands (0.90)
• The concept of a needy God is internally contradictory #contradicts (0.85) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 180
• Aristotles God cannot love humans and remains unaware of the sublunary world. #expands (0.80) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 752