The Death of God doctrine long preceded Hegel within Christian theology and mysticism.

Evidence

The feeling that ‘God himself is dead’ must be understood as a moment of the supreme Idea. Before Hegel, no one had philosophically interpreted the Death of God as the event of his self-negation, that is, as a moment of truth within God himself. Faith and Knowledge, the Phenomenology of Spirit and the Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion are the three essential texts where this interpretation is developed and elaborated. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 765 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Hegel was the first to philosophize the Death of God as God’s self-negation — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 765; Hegel uniquely read the Death of God as divine self-negation; Christian mysticism anticipated the death-of-God idea two centuries before Luther

Broader Connections

• Christian mysticism anticipated the death-of-God idea two centuries before Luther #expands (0.90)
• Hegel was the first to philosophize the Death of God as God’s self-negation #qualifies (0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 765
• Hegel uniquely read the Death of God as divine self-negation #qualifies (0.85)