This collection of essays, by a team of of Christian philosophers,
theologians, and biblical scholars, explores the viability of a
kenotic account of the incarnation. Such an account is inspired by
Paul's lyrical claims in Philippians 2:6-11 that Christ Jesus
though God in nature, 'emptied himself' or 'made himself nothing'
by becoming human. The biblical support for such a view can be
found throughout the four gospels, and the book of Hebrews, as well
as in other places. A kenotic account takes seriously the
possibility that Christ in becoming incarnate, temporarily divested
himself of such properties as omnipotence, omniscience, and
omnipresence. Several of the contributors argue that this view is
fully orthodox, and that it has great strengths in giving us a
picture of God who is willing to become completely vulnerable for
the sake of human beings, and one that is completely consistent
with the very human portrait of Jesus in the New Testament. The
proponents of kenotic Christology argue that the philosophical
accounts of God's nature that have led to rejection of this theory
ought themselves to be subjected to criticism in light of the
biblical data. Some essays test the theory by raising critical
questions and arguing that traditional accounts of the incarnation
can achieve the goals of kenotic theories as well as kenotic
theories can. The book also explores the implications of a kenotic
view of the incarnation for philosophical theology in general and
the doctrine of the Trinity in particular, and it concludes with
essays that examine the validity of the ideal of kenosis for women,
and a challenge to traditional Christology to take a kenotic theory
seriously.
CONTRIBUTORS: C. Stephen Evans, Gordon D. Fee, Sarah Coakley,
Stephen T. Davis, Ronald J. Feenstra, Bruce N. Fisk, Ruth
Groenhout, Edward T. Oakes, SJ, Cornelius Plantinga, Jr., Thomas R.
Thompson, Edwin Chr. van Driel.
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