John Dominic Crossan in In Search of Paul writes “…the foundation of …equality is imitation of (better, participation in) the kenosis, or self-emptying, of Christ as told to the Philippians. Before he proclaimed that hymn to the kenotic Christ in 2:6-11, he pleaded with the Philippians to “let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus”(2:5), and after it he warned them, in a magnificently accurate paradox, to “work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who is at work in you, enabling you both to will and to work for his good pleasure”(2:12-13). How, indeed, could one live personal or communal kenosis without the empowerment of a kenotic Christ and a kenotic God?”
John Dominic Crossan in In Search of Paul writes “…the foundation of …equality is imitation of (better, participation in) the kenosis, or self-emptying, of Christ as told to the Philippians. Before he proclaimed that hymn to the kenotic Christ in 2:6-11, he pleaded with the Philippians to “let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus”(2:5), and after it he warned them, in a magnificently accurate paradox, to “work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who is at work in you, enabling you both to will and to work for his good pleasure”(2:12-13). How, indeed, could one live personal or communal kenosis without the empowerment of a kenotic Christ and a kenotic God?”
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