Theological mystery is God’s mode of self-appearing, not a cognitive failure.

Evidence

‘Mystery’ must not be understood here by reversing Hegel’s sense, as if mystery were another name for the understanding’s inability to grasp the religious content in a properly speculative framework. The theological claim of mystery rests less on a gnostic principle (e.g. God must be inaccessible to human understanding) than on the recognition that God has a particular way of appearing. The phenomenon of God’s presence does not cause a failure of knowledge but a ‘breakdown of assurances, of guarantees’. It creates a relation to the secret, but not to the secret in the sense of something ‘secret to the understanding’. The secret as understood here belongs to the manifestation of God himself and could not be interpreted as a sign of his jealousy. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 746

Categorization

• DEFINE: Redefines ‘mystery’ as belonging to the manifestation of God himself rather than to a gnostic barrier against understanding.
• XREF: connects to: God’s incomprehensibility means he exceeds knowledge, not that reason fails him. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 744; Divine mystery is God’s mode of appearing, not hiddenness from reason; God’s incomprehensibility means he resists possession, not that reason fails

Broader Connections

• Divine mystery is God’s mode of appearing, not hiddenness from reason #corroborates (0.98)
• God’s incomprehensibility means he resists possession, not that reason fails #expands (0.82)