Exploring Kenotic Christology: A Book Review
An excellent review.
This review goes back a couple years, but it gets at an issue that continues to be espoused—namely the idea that Christ “emptied” (kenosis) himself of some of his divine attributes.
Evans, C. Stephen (ed.). Exploring Kenotic Christology: The Self-Emptying of God. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 360 pp. $34.95.
Exploring Kenotic Christology is a compilation of 12 essays edited by Stephen Evans. From start to finish the goal of the book is to make a place for the “kenotic view” of Christ’s incarnation alongside, or in replace of, the “classical view.” Introducing the writers, Evans writes, “Most of the authors can fairly be described as advocates of kenotic Christology, at least in the sense that they are convinced that this approach is a promising one to explore, even if not all of them are convinced of its final adequacy” (5).
In the assigned essays, this statement…
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