The modern conception of subjectivity pre-existed in God’s own self-revelation

Evidence

Accordingly, the Encyclopedia brings out the point presupposed in all the other discussions of Christianity within the System: viz., that the possibility of the modern conception of subjectivity, in both the religious and philosophical senses, was already in the divine subjectivity itself. While the text of Revealed Religion provides the foundation for an analysis of this modern concept of subjectivity, it is not simply a matter of extracting from it the relevant characteristics but, even more, of showing how such characteristics are present in God. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 632

Categorization

• XREF: Reverses the usual secularization story (modern subjectivity invented against religion): here modernity’s subject-concept is retroactively found already inside divinity. Resonates with enmity work where the enemy’s agency may be read as pre-inscribed in the structure that produces it. — connects to: Incarnation instantiates the substance-subject movement within God himself — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 858; Modern religion draws on the same subjectivity principle that undermines it — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 799
• DEFINE: Specifies that Revealed Religion is not merely a source of characteristics but shows characteristics are in God — clarifying the Encyclopedia’s distinct theological register.