Exploring Kenotic Christology: The Self-Emptying of God

Exploring Kenotic Christology: The Self-Emptying of God.

Edited by C. Stephen Evans. Oxford University Press, 368 pp., $95.00.

Kenotic Christology, which maintains that in the incarnation God gave up some divine prerogatives in order to become human, is not much in vogue anymore. But this book signals that a minor renaissance of this approach to the nature of Christ may be under way. As the book's subtitle suggests, ultimately kenoticism is about the nature of God and not just Jesus. Is God by nature self-emptying and self-limiting? These writers might have probed more fully the ecclesial and ethical implications of believing that in the incarnation Jesus revealed a self-emptying God. Unfortunately, the price of the book will be prohibitive for many individuals, but the volume should be included in college and seminary libraries.

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