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christology

2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.

Thinker

Hans Urs von Balthasar

Swiss Catholic theologian, widely considered one of the greatest theologians of the 20th century. His trilogy — The Glory of the Lord, Theo-Drama, Theo-Logic — offered a comprehensive theological aesthetics anchored in the beauty of God's self-revelation in Christ.

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Idea

Kenosis

Greek theological concept — derived from Philippians 2:7 (Christ 'emptied himself' — ekenosen — taking the form of a servant) — describing the divine self-limitation or self-emptying by which the eternal Logos became incarnate — one of the most generative concepts in Christian theology and contemporary philosophy of religion.

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