Karl Barth's Christology as a Resource for a Reformed Version of Kenoticism

Author: McCORMACK, BRUCE L.1

Source: International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 8, Number 3, July 2006 , pp. 243-251(9)

Publisher: Blackwell Publishing

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This article starts by examining the `shift' in thinking on kenosis from the sixteenth-century doctrine established by Lutheran orthodoxy to the nineteenth-century understanding developed by Gottfried Thomasius. Karl Barth's understanding of `kenotic Christology' was largely controlled by the nineteenth-century definition and, as a result, he rejected it. However, Barth's later treatment of the incarnation in CD IV/I provides resources for taking up the language of kenosis in a positive way that would be thoroughly `Reformed' in character. There are considerable theological gains to be made by such an approach.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2400.2006.00212.x

Affiliations: 1: Princeton Theological Seminary, 64 Mercer Street, PO Box 821, Princeton, NJ 08542-0803, USA.

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