Asymmetrical assumption: Why Lutheran christology does not lead to kenoticism or divine passibility
It has been commonplace for over a century to argue that the distinctively Lutheran form of the communicatio idiomatum leads naturally to kenotic christology, divine passibility, or both. Although this argument has been generally accepted as a historical claim, has also been advanced repeatedly as a...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Journals Online & Print: | Drawer...
|
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Published: |
[2019]
|
| In: |
Scottish journal of theology
Year: 2019, Volume: 72, Issue: 4, Pages: 357-374 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Lutheran theology
/ Christology
/ Kenosis
/ Theism
/ Communication
|
| IxTheo Classification: | KDD Protestant Church NBC Doctrine of God NBF Christology |
| Further subjects: | B
divine passibility
B Christology B Kenosis B Lutheran Theology |
| Online Access: |
Volltext (Resolving-System) Volltext (doi) |
| Summary: | It has been commonplace for over a century to argue that the distinctively Lutheran form of the communicatio idiomatum leads naturally to kenotic christology, divine passibility, or both. Although this argument has been generally accepted as a historical claim, has also been advanced repeatedly as a criticism of classical theism' and has featured significantly in almost all recent defences of divine passibility, I argue that it does not work: the Lutheran scholastics had ample resources drawn from nothing more than ecumenical trinitarian and christological dogma to defend their denial of the genus tapeinoticum. I argue further that this defence, if right, undermines a remarkably wide series of proposals in contemporary systematic theology. |
|---|---|
| ISSN: | 1475-3065 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Scottish journal of theology
|
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0036930619000589 |