TY - JOUR
T1 - Deep Incarnation and Kenosis
T2 - In, With, and Under - A Response to Ted Peters
AU - Gregersen, Niels Henrik
N1 - Response to Ted Peters, "Deep Incarnation and Happy Danes," in Dialog: A Journal of Theology 52:3, 248-254
PY - 2013/9
Y1 - 2013/9
N2 - In this response to Ted Peters, I relate the proposal of deep incarnation to Luther's theology of the real presence of the humanity of Christ in creation. Based on a typology of four distinctive models of kenosis, I furthermore argue that a kenotic view of incarnation and divine creativity does not necessarily imply a divine absence and withdrawal from creation, as presupposed by Professor Peters. Deep incarnation is consistent with a compatibilist view of kenosis, but not with ideas of divine abdication, or metamorphosis. Finally I situate the view of deep incarnation to Scandinavian creation theology and to research programs at the Centre for Naturalism and Christian Semantics, Copenhagen University.
AB - In this response to Ted Peters, I relate the proposal of deep incarnation to Luther's theology of the real presence of the humanity of Christ in creation. Based on a typology of four distinctive models of kenosis, I furthermore argue that a kenotic view of incarnation and divine creativity does not necessarily imply a divine absence and withdrawal from creation, as presupposed by Professor Peters. Deep incarnation is consistent with a compatibilist view of kenosis, but not with ideas of divine abdication, or metamorphosis. Finally I situate the view of deep incarnation to Scandinavian creation theology and to research programs at the Centre for Naturalism and Christian Semantics, Copenhagen University.
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0012-2033
VL - 52
SP - 255
EP - 266
JO - Dialog
JF - Dialog
IS - 3
ER -