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单词 kenosis
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Definition of kenosis in English:

kenosis

noun kɪˈnəʊsɪskəˈnōsəs
mass noun
  • (in Christian theology) the renunciation of the divine nature, at least in part, by Christ in the Incarnation.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It's one thing to identify God as a powerful liberator, another to point to that ‘power’ being in the kenosis / solidarity of Jesus, emptying himself out and taking the form of a slave.
    • Perhaps what we need most to find true community is a kenosis, a self-emptying not from equality with God, but from our class posturing, from the subtleties of a politics of distinction, and from participation in the rituals of inequality.
    • Following the principle that what was not assumed cannot be redeemed, Lewis insists that God himself was involved in the kenosis, including the death and burial of Jesus.
    • God's kenosis is still the centre of our attention.
    • Theology has typically confined the concept of kenosis to the incarnation of the Son.
    • For Bulgakov, kenosis, the divine self-diminution, is the core revelation of who God is.
    • In Buddhism, the term sunyata is used for Emptiness - and in Christianity the word kenosis is sometimes used.
    • Haught directly confronts original sin, the presence of evil and suffering in the universe, the kenosis of God, and the difficulty of reconciling the concept of the soul with the findings of genetic science.
    • It is this understanding of kenosis we shall now seek to apply to God in creation.
    • Herbert appeals to the imagery of divine kenosis.
    • The kenosis, therefore, is Christ taking on a human nature with all of its limitations, except with no sin.
    • The pattern of kenosis applies, not just to the life and death of the Christ, but also to his performance of the divine role of judgment.
    • For those of us who fulfill our baptismal call to follow Jesus in and through the sacrament of matrimony, kenosis is the call to a self-emptying or dying to our needs, hopes, and expectations.
    • The question is whether those of us who are concerned about tradition and innovation in Anglicanism are ready for the needed metanoia and kenosis and thus to be vulnerable in the process.
    • Living the mystery of kenosis is living for eternal life - a life we cannot fully imagine, the life that God alone gives through the kenosis of Christ and of the Church.
    • At the end of one cycle of time, they say, we experience kenosis, an emptying.
    • Combining this with a belief in inspiration, they recognize that there is a kenosis involved in God's committing His message to human words.
    • A Buddhist and a Christian think more penetratingly about emptiness and kenosis as a result of their encounter.
    • Without this, the kenosis of the Son and the kenosis of conversion to faith in the Son as the revelation of the Father are reduced to groundless, accidental occurrences.

Derivatives

  • kenotic

  • adjective kɪˈnɒtɪk
    • If, at the same time, we understand divine judgment as kenotic and eschatological, we will be driven to deny that anything we understand by judgment might represent it.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • This in no way means that God is powerless, as some critics of kenotic theology have complained.
      • Another scene from John's Gospel fills out the pattern of this kenotic judgment, wherein the judge judges by vacating the judgment seat to another and by assuming the role of the accused.
      • The main difficulty with this basic version of the kenotic view is that it entails that a thing can lay aside properties essential for its being a member of a certain kind and still remain a member of that kind.
      • The divine judgment is unexpected, kenotic, eschatological, and apophatically affirmed and denied.

Origin

Late 19th century: from Greek kenōsis 'an emptying', from kenoein 'to empty', from kenos 'empty', with biblical allusion (Phil. 2:7) to Greek heauton ekenōse, literally 'emptied himself'.

Rhymes

apotheosis, chlorosis, cirrhosis, diagnosis, halitosis, hypnosis, meiosis, metempsychosis, misdiagnosis, mononucleosis, myxomatosis, necrosis, neurosis, osmosis, osteoporosis, prognosis, psittacosis, psychosis, sclerosis, symbiosis, thrombosis, toxoplasmosis, trichinosis, tuberculosis
 
 

Definition of kenosis in US English:

kenosis

nounkəˈnōsəs
  • (in Christian theology) the renunciation of the divine nature, at least in part, by Christ in the Incarnation.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A Buddhist and a Christian think more penetratingly about emptiness and kenosis as a result of their encounter.
    • Combining this with a belief in inspiration, they recognize that there is a kenosis involved in God's committing His message to human words.
    • Haught directly confronts original sin, the presence of evil and suffering in the universe, the kenosis of God, and the difficulty of reconciling the concept of the soul with the findings of genetic science.
    • The question is whether those of us who are concerned about tradition and innovation in Anglicanism are ready for the needed metanoia and kenosis and thus to be vulnerable in the process.
    • At the end of one cycle of time, they say, we experience kenosis, an emptying.
    • Following the principle that what was not assumed cannot be redeemed, Lewis insists that God himself was involved in the kenosis, including the death and burial of Jesus.
    • The kenosis, therefore, is Christ taking on a human nature with all of its limitations, except with no sin.
    • For Bulgakov, kenosis, the divine self-diminution, is the core revelation of who God is.
    • The pattern of kenosis applies, not just to the life and death of the Christ, but also to his performance of the divine role of judgment.
    • Without this, the kenosis of the Son and the kenosis of conversion to faith in the Son as the revelation of the Father are reduced to groundless, accidental occurrences.
    • Theology has typically confined the concept of kenosis to the incarnation of the Son.
    • God's kenosis is still the centre of our attention.
    • It's one thing to identify God as a powerful liberator, another to point to that ‘power’ being in the kenosis / solidarity of Jesus, emptying himself out and taking the form of a slave.
    • For those of us who fulfill our baptismal call to follow Jesus in and through the sacrament of matrimony, kenosis is the call to a self-emptying or dying to our needs, hopes, and expectations.
    • Living the mystery of kenosis is living for eternal life - a life we cannot fully imagine, the life that God alone gives through the kenosis of Christ and of the Church.
    • In Buddhism, the term sunyata is used for Emptiness - and in Christianity the word kenosis is sometimes used.
    • Perhaps what we need most to find true community is a kenosis, a self-emptying not from equality with God, but from our class posturing, from the subtleties of a politics of distinction, and from participation in the rituals of inequality.
    • It is this understanding of kenosis we shall now seek to apply to God in creation.
    • Herbert appeals to the imagery of divine kenosis.

Origin

Late 19th century: from Greek kenōsis ‘an emptying’, from kenoein ‘to empty’, from kenos ‘empty’, with biblical allusion (Phil. 2:7) to Greek heauton ekenōse, literally ‘emptied himself’.

 
 
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