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the doctrine that Christ relinquished His divine attributes so as to experience human suffering

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  • It makes sense of the idea of universal 'kenotic' energy, the universal urge in creation to that self emptying love.
  • What we receive in the Eucharist is the glorified 'kenotic' Son who empties himself for us on the cross and again in the Eucharist.
  • I would also recommend looking into "kenotic" theology.
  • Bulgakov speaks of this work as "kenotic" in that the Spirit "diminished Himself to becoming in His revelation in the creaturely Sophia" (220).
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