Self-Emptying of Christ and the Christian - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Self-Emptying of Christ and the Christian write by John B. Lounibos. This book was released on 2011-05-01. Self-Emptying of Christ and the Christian available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection wrestles with a profusion of questions about kenosis. What is the original meaning and purpose of the self-emptying of Jesus? How can today's Christians emulate it, replacing our own selfish designs with the mind of Christ? How is the current interest in "servant leadership," as a model in the modern church, related to the self-sacrificing servant of Philippians 2? Does this practice have any meaning in our present secular age? Does it imply deconstructing the content of Christian faith and morals in contemporary culture? Is it a possible bridge between Eastern and Western spiritual traditions? Using the key theme of Jesus' emptying of himself in the Philippians hymn, John Lounibos explores the mysteries of kenosis in three strikingly different essays. The first, using extensive exegesis of the text, opens up the poetic, theological, and spiritual depths of this Christian mystery. The second essay establishes a philosophical grounding for kenosis in the work of Paul Tillich on the estrangements of finite human freedom. The third enters into dialogue with the Buddhist tradition and its intriguing notions of "nothingness" and "no-self." The attentive reader will be rewarded with a wealth of information and insights for further reflection and personal application.
Exploring Kenotic Christology
Exploring Kenotic Christology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Exploring Kenotic Christology write by C. Stephen Evans. This book was released on 2006. Exploring Kenotic Christology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of essays, by a team of Christian philosophers, theologians, and biblical scholars, explores the viability of a kenotic account of the incarnation. Such an account is inspired by Paul's lyrical claims in Philippians 2:6-11 that Christ Jesus, though God in nature, 'emptied himself' or 'made himself nothing' by becoming human. The biblical support for such a view can be found throughout the four gospels and the book of Hebrews, as well as in other places. A kenotic account takes seriously the possibility that Christ, in becoming incarnate, temporarily divested himself of such properties as omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence. Several of the contributors argue that this view is fully orthodox, and that it has great strengths in giving us a picture of a God who is willing to become completely vulnerable for the sake of human beings, and one that is completely consistent with the very human portrait of Jesus in the New Testament. The proponents of kenotic Christology argue that the philosophical accounts of God's nature that have led to rejection of this theory ought themselves to be subjected to criticism in light of the biblical data. Some essays test the theory by raising critical questions and arguing that traditional accounts of the incarnation can achieve the goals of kenotic theories as well as kenotic theories can. The book also explores the implications of a kenotic view of the incarnation for philosophical theology in general and the doctrine of the Trinity in particular, and it concludes with essays that examine the validity of the ideal of kenosis for women, and a challenge to traditional Christology to take a kenotic theory seriously. Book jacket.
Christ
Christ - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Christ write by Lucien Richard. This book was released on 1997. Christ available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A major theologian develops here a complete and systematic Christology that integrates the divine acts of creation, liberation, incarnation and redemption with the life, ministry, death and resurrection of Jesus.
A More Christlike God
A More Christlike God - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A More Christlike God write by Bradley Jersak. This book was released on 2015-09-01. A More Christlike God available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Whether our notions of ‘god’ are personal projections or inherited traditions, author and theologian Brad Jersak proposes a radical reassessment, arguing for A More Christlike God: a More Beautiful Gospel. If Christ is “the image of the invisible God, the radiance of God’s glory and exact representation of God’s likeness,” what if we conceived of God as completely Christlike—the perfect Incarnation of self-giving, radically forgiving, co-suffering love? What if God has always been and forever will be ‘cruciform’ (cross-shaped) in his character and actions? A More Christlike God suggests that such a God would be very good news indeed—a God who Jesus “unwrathed” from dead religion, a Love that is always toward us, and a Grace that pours into this suffering world through willing, human partners.
Jesus: A New Vision
Jesus: A New Vision - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jesus: A New Vision write by Marcus J. Borg. This book was released on 2009-10-13. Jesus: A New Vision available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From top Jesus expert Marcus Borg, a completely updated and revised version of his vision of Jesus—as charismatic healer, sage, and prophet, a man living in the power of the spirit and dedicated to radical social change. Fully revised and updated, this is Borg's major book on the historial Jesus. He shows how the Gospel portraits of Jesus, historically seen, make sense. Borg takes into account all the recent developments in historical Jesus scholarship, as well as new theories on who Jesus was and how the Gospels reflect that. The original version of this book was published well before popular fascination with the historical Jesus. Now this new version takes advantage of all the research that has gone on since the 80s. The revisions establish it as Borg's big but popular book on Jesus.
