kenosis

IPA: kɪnˈoʊsʌs

(Christianity) Christ's voluntary abasement consisting of humanity and the simultaneous occultation of the Divinity.

Examples of "kenosis" in Sentences

The concept of kenosis is usually applied to the incarnation of Christ.
Chapter 11 is the last in part 3, and applies the notion of kenosis to creation.
In some theistic monism thought the principal of kenosis is in play where God is self-limiting with respect to life.
Philippians 2:7-8 The concept of self-emptying, known in Christian history by the Greek name kenosis, is common to many of the world's religions.
This is combined with the notion of kenosis from the Christian tradition, i.e. the idea that God emptied himself in the incarnation, taking a humble human form with all the implied limitations.
If we take care to see this, if we are canny enough to attend to it and faithful enough to lean into it, then the particular ache of that waking can initiate a response that the Greeks were wont to call kenosis -- an emptying.