It makes sense of the idea of universal 'kenotic' energy, the universal urge in creation to that self emptying love. From Wordnik.com. [Creation, Creativity and Creatureliness: the Wisdom of Finite Existence Study Day organised by the St Theosevia Centre for Christian Spirituality, Oxford] Reference
What we receive in the Eucharist is the glorified 'kenotic' Son who empties himself for us on the cross and again in the Eucharist. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-05-01] Reference
I would also recommend looking into "kenotic" theology. From Wordnik.com. [Muti] Reference
Bulgakov speaks of this work as "kenotic" in that the Spirit "diminished Himself to becoming in His revelation in the creaturely Sophia" (220). From Wordnik.com. [The Fire and the Rose] Reference
As Ray Brassier's project, which he describes as a transcendental nihilism, has been a singular influence on English language reception of Laruelle's project I at first assumed there was some kind of kenotic element to this phrase. From Wordnik.com. [An und für sich] Reference
What we really need to be redeemed is to get beyond that, to kenotic love. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference
In theological shorthand, wisdom is kenotic; to live in wisdom is to live in and by this energy of dispossession and outpouring. From Wordnik.com. [Creation, Creativity and Creatureliness: the Wisdom of Finite Existence Study Day organised by the St Theosevia Centre for Christian Spirituality, Oxford] Reference
Some have offered more refined versions of the kenotic theory, arguing that the basic view mischaracterizes the divine attributes. From Wordnik.com. [Philosophy and Christian Theology] Reference
The theology that exists in the midst of the sciences is a kenotic discipline, from the Greek kenosis, "self-emptying" see Phil 2:5-8. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
Clayton, along with Joseph Bracken (1974; 2004), identifies his understanding of panentheism as Trinitarian and kenotic (Clayton 2005, 255). From Wordnik.com. [Panentheism] Reference
As one might suppose, it can feel very much like a consolation -- having transformed our painful, kenotic emptying into a means to a desirable end. From Wordnik.com. [Scott Cairns: Moments That Wake Us Up] Reference
But that is simply to say the creative artist is doing a kenotic job; allowing the rhythm of the deepest reality to become transparent in your acts, your imagination, requires a real discipline of self-forgetting. From Wordnik.com. [Creation, Creativity and Creatureliness: the Wisdom of Finite Existence Study Day organised by the St Theosevia Centre for Christian Spirituality, Oxford] Reference
But I wonder, Chris, whether you are aware that this kenotic approach to Christology is clearly heretical by the standard of the Council of Chalcedon, which declared there to be no change in the divinity of the eternal Son. From Wordnik.com. [Why Liberal Christianity Isn't Bankrupt] Reference
First there was the sixteenth-century kabbalist Isaac Luria's notion of "tzimtzum," that is, the primordial kenotic space of Divine contraction out of which the pairs of opposites constituting the universe were said to arise. From Wordnik.com. [Kafka and the Coincidence of Opposites] Reference
If the kenotic view is correct, then (contrary to what theists are normally inclined to think) properties like omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence are not essential to divinity: something can remain divine even after putting some or all of those properties aside. From Wordnik.com. [Philosophy and Christian Theology] Reference
It means that campaigning about debt or fair trade is creative, it is an exercise of what our humanity is called to, it is the kenotic and sophianic search for a justice which is beautiful, a justice which uncovers what the world fundamentally is; a world of interdependence and interaction, a world in which self-forgetting brings joy, common, shared joy. From Wordnik.com. [Creation, Creativity and Creatureliness: the Wisdom of Finite Existence Study Day organised by the St Theosevia Centre for Christian Spirituality, Oxford] Reference
Navy Stops Wake, kenotic @izangel watching collage football scores. From Wordnik.com. [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference
Southgate suggests that this inherently self-emptying, or kenotic, character of the divine love is the ground of God's desire to create the genuinely other. From Wordnik.com. [A Thinking Reed] Reference
As Southgate observes, the divine love may be kenotic, or self-emptying, but Darwinian pressures require organisms to be self-assertive, if not downright aggressive. From Wordnik.com. [A Thinking Reed] Reference
"outside" of the creaturely Sophia; the Father stands at a kenotic distance. From Wordnik.com. [The Fire and the Rose] Reference
However, Clayton’s “open kenotic panentheism” leaves one asking a few questions. From Wordnik.com. [Darren Iammarino - The Emergence of God] Reference
In this later text, Philosophy as Metanoetics, written around the same time as Nishida was elaborating his own kenotic idea of a self-negating Absolute Nothingness, Tanabe, in a putative critique of Nishida, also writes: “Because the absolute subject of Other-power is Absolute Nothingness ¦ it must be thoroughly mediated by the relative self. From Wordnik.com. [The Kyoto School] Reference
The first is the kenotic strategy. From Wordnik.com. [Philosophy and Christian Theology] Reference
This is the mind that we must take on, a 'kenotic mind', one that embraces the lowly state and poverty of being human. ". From Wordnik.com. [Purpleocity.net] Reference
Humanity, incarnation, kenosis, kenotic. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference
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