kenosis

As "priests of creation," humanity here voluntarily stays away from the world of greed and destruction and opts for an organic lifestyle that is kenotic. As Elizabeth Theokritoff puts it succinctly, "In this living, matter and material things become means of 'communion' not 'consumerism'." (9)

(41) In the first stanza, the ekphrastic mode seems to dominate and Pushkin seems to celebrate a logocentric "word"; however, if one considers the theological implications of the Incarnation as a kenotic descent from spirit to matter, from word to flesh, the rest of the poem moves in a more iconic direction.

Yet when Coutras does put the theology of the Son to work, she opens up some productive possibilities of figura, such as with Luthien, who is a kenotic savior figure, and with Turin, who, as pagan tragic hero, anticipates (or rather as a twentieth-century creation recalls) the suffering Christ.

Religion and the Body: Living Sacrifices and Kenotic Discourse in Evangelical Athleticism.

Just as Jesus Christ humbled himself by becoming human (Philippians 2), Christianity is called to a kenotic (self-emptying) theology in which it renounces its assumed superiority over other religions.

Four Quartets and the Failure of Poetry." Breaking the Silence: Poetry and the Kenotic Word.

The Spirit invites a kenotic meeting of client and clinician to form the working alliance, foments an emotionally rich environment in which the corrective emotional experience takes place, and serves as midwife to the genesis of new synapses and neurons in the brain.

Interestingly, Carroll stipulates that we have no need of positing a kenotic theology, as many do in the contemporary environment, in contradistinction to what a later author in the book does (Zycinski, chapter thirteen).

* to be deeply attentive to the kenotic moments in our lives, considering each moment a reminder of God's continuous acts of self-giving, pulling us repeatedly to the heart of the Gospel;

This kenotic framework incorporates our violent touch, our misreadings that signal the passage of time and, at its end, the glorious fulfillment of Donne's poetry.

Here is a glimpse into the kenotic view he adopted of the trinitarian persons:

As any good survey should, O.'s work indicates sources and concepts for further development, such as the kenotic, self-emptying "humanity of God" (Bogochelovechestvo).