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Kenosis (Self-Emptying)

The eternal Son 'emptied himself' and took the form of a servant

Kenosis names the self-emptying described in Philippians, where the divine Son took the form of a servant in becoming human. The scriptural language is cited across all communions as a key to the Incarnation. More contested are the modern 'kenotic' theories, developed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which proposed that the Son actually surrendered certain divine attributes; these interpretations are debated and not universally accepted.

How it traveled

  1. Philippians
    Rome · 67
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  2. Against Eunomius
    Nyssa · 395
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  3. The Great Catechism
    Nyssa · 395
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  4. Exposition of the Christian Faith
    Milan · 397
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  5. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Gospel of St. John
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  6. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  7. Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. John
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  8. On the Holy Trinity
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  9. Expositions on the Book of Psalms
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  10. Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  11. The Ecclesiastical History, Dialogues, and Letters of Theodoret
    Cyrrhus · 458
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  12. The Letters and Sermons of Leo the Great
    Rome · 461
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  13. Treatise on the Incarnation (qq[1]-59)
    Paris · 1274
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  14. Book Second. of the Knowledge of God the Redeemer, in Christ, as First Manifested to the Fathers, Under the Law, and Thereafter to Us Under the Gospel
    Geneva · 1564
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  15. The Wisdom of God Displayed in the Way of Salvation
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  16. XIV Five discourses on the soul's eternal salvation
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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