The humility of the eternal son : reformed kenoticism and the repair of Chalcedon / Bruce Lindley McCormack, Princeton Theological Seminary, New Jersey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCormack, Bruce L., author.

Series:

Current issues in theology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jesus Christ--History of doctrines.

Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ--Humiliation--History of doctrines.

Incarnation--History of doctrines.

Incarnation.

Theology, Doctrinal.

Humiliation.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 316 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. 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

pt. 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

pt. III REPAIRING CHALCEDON

7. Towards a Reformed Version of Kenotic Christology.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

Online version: McCormack, Bruce Lindley, 1952- The humility of the eternal son

ISBN:

9781316518298

1316518299

OCLC:

1237352230

Publisher Number:

99989674565