Theologians reject Hegel because concept-bound God loses transcendence and power to promise.

Evidence

The theologians’ objections to this approach converge on a single issue: Hegel’s God is without future. … By linking (en enchaînant) God to the necessity of the concept, Hegel in fact removes from Him the mystery of His coming to be (advenir), or, in other words, His transcendence. With the plenitude of his possibilities removed, God would be reduced to a being without the power either to give himself or to promise himself. A God we no longer await, how could such a God have a future? — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 638

Categorization

Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims

• XREF: The ‘God we no longer await has no future’ objection foreshadows the enmity question of whether a fully known, present enemy retains any surprise or capacity to redefine.

Related

• Hegel’s God can present itself yet never truly happen (similarity 0.85)
• Hegel’s divine self-determination threatens God’s creative freedom for theological readers. (similarity 0.85)
• God’s fall is the highest form of his eminence, not his diminishment (similarity 0.84)
• A fully self-transparent God can neither occur nor arrive, and so cannot promise (similarity 0.84)
• Hegel refigures divine decline as an eruption of futurity, not degeneration (similarity 0.84)
• God can be transcendent as pure difference without being an otherworldly entity (similarity 0.83)
• Stressing a philosopher’s originality can inadvertently confirm their conformity to tradition. (similarity 0.83)
• Hegel inscribes time, not lack, within God by identifying God with transcendental imagination (similarity 0.83)
• God’s identity with transcendental imagination guarantees his future rather than his lack (similarity 0.83)
• Hegel inserts time rather than lack into divine subjectivity. (similarity 0.83)
• Barth rejected Hegel’s God as an apprehensible essence rather than a free new beginning. (similarity 0.82)
• Speculative theology’s completion requires an original passivity in God. (similarity 0.82)
• Hegel is the origin of most 19th-20th century end-themed philosophy. (similarity 0.82)
• Hegel’s critique of reified divine presence paradoxically enables a more intimate possession of God (similarity 0.82)
• Hegel’s thought allegedly renounced all future by thinking time itself. (similarity 0.82)