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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"kenosis"”.
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Hans Urs Von Balthasar and Kenosis: The Pathway to Human Agency
… This project explores the themes of kenosis within the doctrine of the Incarnation and Trinity as the solution to understanding human agency and as the answer to original sin in and through the Incarnation. The Christological and Trinitarian shape of sainthood and spirituality are …
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Kenosis as Performance of Power in the Theology of Julian of Norwich
… of Julian of Norwich through the symbol of kenosis. Chapter 1analyzes kenosis in its original context (Paul's letter to the Philippians) where it expresses the "self-emptying" movement of a divine person becoming human, suffering a violent death and returning to an exalted state. It then …
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Mission as Encounterology – a Kenotic Approach
This study investigate the role of kenosis in the Christian missiological encounters with other religions. We shall begin with a brief history of the missiological approach employed in Christian mission in their efforts of reaching out to other religions. This will be followed by a detailed study …
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All done by mirrors: reflectivity in the novels of Elizabeth Taylor (1912-75)
… writing, but their application of a Bloomian kenosis to its major text, Jane Eyre (1847), is noted. A View of The Harbour (1947) and A Wreath Of Roses (1949) are discussed in terms of their refusal of Woolfian "vision. " A Game Of Hide And Seek (1951) and The Sleeping Beauty are interrelated …
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Faithful Form: On Religion and Politics in German Modernist Lyric
… World War and develops mystical practices of kenosis (emptying one’s particular will—or in the case of Trakl, the normativity of collective forms—as preparation for receiving the divine) within the social and political sphere as a response to apocalyptic temporality. Rilke’s poetry uses …
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Love itself is understanding : Balthasar, truth, and the saints.
… and response, donation and receptivity, kenosis and obedience. Dialogicality is the rhythm of love, and hence the proper form of truth. It is for this reason, we shall argue, that Balthasar's account of truth requires the saints as those whose lives are fundamentally dialogical insofar as …
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Primary and Secondary Causality in the Thought of St. Anselm: A Speculation on Divine Omniscience, Predestination and Grace in the Context of Human Freedom and Spirituality
Implicit in the writings of St Anselm of Canterbury is a distinct conception of the cooperative integration of primary and secondary causality. An exploration of this topic in Anselm's theology will reveal its unique contribution to the understanding that faith, hope and grace affirm the …