Definition of Kenosis

1. Noun. (Christianity) Christ's voluntary divestment of his divine powers. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Kenosis

1. the incarnation of Christ [n -SISES] : KENOTIC [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Kenosis

kennels
kenner
kenners
kennet
kennetjie
kennets
kenning
kennings
keno
keno-
kenogenesis
kenogenetic
kenophobia
kenos
kenoses
kenosis (current term)
kenosises
kenotic
kenotron
kenotrons
kenpaullone
kenpaullones
kens
kensho
kenspeck
kenspeckle
kentake
kentakes
kentan
kentbrooksite

Literary usage of Kenosis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"Scrip- 6-8) where Paul says that Christ tu ral " being in the form of God, thought it Basis of not robbery to be equal with God, but kenosis. made himself ..."

2. The Principle of the Incarnation: With Especial Reference to the Relation by Henry Clark Powell (1896)
"HISTORY OF OPINION IN THE CHURCH RESPECTING THE kenosis. THE most convenient division for the kind of survey of the history of opinion on the subject of the ..."

3. Waymarks in Church History by William Bright (1894)
"APPENDIX G. CYRIL ON THE " kenosis." CYRIL frequently introduces the word K«'vu>cns in reference to Phil. ii. 6, and evidently takes it in the literal sense ..."

4. Books for New Testament Study: Popular and Professional; Recommended by the by Clyde Weber Votaw, Charles Frederick Bradley (1900)
"New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1884. Pp. 363. $3.50. 7. THE INCARNATION AND kenosis OF CHRIST. Ottley, RL The Doctrine of the Incarnation. ..."

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