The humility of the eternal son : reformed kenoticism and the repair of Chalcedon /
McCormack, Bruce L.,author.
"The "person" of Christ. In this eagerly-awaited volume - the result of deep and sustained reflection - distinguished theologian Bruce McCormack examines the reasons for this philosophical and theological failure. His book serves as a critical history that traces modern attempts at resolution of this problem, from the nineteenth-century Lutheran emphasis on Kenoticism (or the 'self-emptying' of the Son in order to be receptive to the will of the Father) to post-Barthian efforts that evade the issue by collapsing the second person of the Trinity into the human Jesus - thereby rejecting altogether the logic of the classical 'two-natures' Christology. McCormack shows how New Testament Christologies both limit and authorize ontological reflection, and in so doing offers a distinctively Reformed version of Kenoticism. Proposing a new and bold divine ontology, with a convincing basis in Christology, he persuasively argues that the unity of the "person" is in fact guaranteed by the Son's act of taking into his "being" the lived existence of Jesus"--
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"The "person" of Christ. In this eagerly-awaited volume - the result of deep and sustained reflection - distinguished theologian Bruce McCormack examines the reasons for this philosophical and theological failure. His book serves as a critical history that traces modern attempts at resolution of this problem, from the nineteenth-century Lutheran emphasis on Kenoticism (or the 'self-emptying' of the Son in order to be receptive to the will of the Father) to post-Barthian efforts that evade the issue by collapsing the second person of the Trinity into the human Jesus - thereby rejecting altogether the logic of the classical 'two-natures' Christology. McCormack shows how New Testament Christologies both limit and authorize ontological reflection, and in so doing offers a distinctively Reformed version of Kenoticism. Proposing a new and bold divine ontology, with a convincing basis in Christology, he persuasively argues that the unity of the "person" is in fact guaranteed by the Son's act of taking into his "being" the lived existence of Jesus"--
Prologue to a trilogy of works: on the role played (historically) by divine impassibility in Christological construction -- Introduction: On the (possible) consequences of affirming that humility and obedience are proper to the Eternal Son (a programmatic description) -- Part I. A Critical History of Kenotic Christologies And Their Antecedents: An Overview -- 1. Chalcedon and its legacy -- 2. Divine kenosis as either depotentiation or divestment: The failure of nineteenth-century kenoticism to repair Chalcedon -- 3. Divine kenosis as proper to the Eternal Son: Attempts to repair Chalcedon -- 4. The post-Barthian temptation: Collapse of the Eternal Son into Jesus and surrender of an immanent trinity in protology -- Part II. Returning To Scripture -- 5. The self-humiliating God in Paul's theology (and in Hebrews) -- 6. The Christological subject in the Synoptics and in John -- 7. Towars a reformed version of kenotic Christology -- Epilogue: Looking forward.
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