T. F. Torrance on Philippians 2:5-11:
“….there is no ground for any theory of kenōsis or emptying as that has been expounded in the ‘kenotic theories’ of the incarnation. Kenōsis refers to the self-abnegating, redemptive descent of God into human life. Kenōsis and tapeinōsis (humbling) both refer to the self-sacrificial self-communication of God to mankind. That is to say, there is no ground for saying that in becoming man the eternal Son emptied himself of some of his divine properties or attributes in order to come within our human and historical existence. It is God himself, he who was in the form of God and equal to God, who condescended to be very man of very man. Nothing at all is said of how that takes place. All kenotic theories are attempts to explain the how of the incarnation in some measure: how God and man are united in one Jesus Christ, how the Word has become flesh. All that is said is that this union is a way of incredible humiliation and grace.”
–T.F. Torrance, Incarnation: The Person and Life of Christ, 2008, 76.
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