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ke·no·sis  (k-nss)
n. Christianity
The relinquishment of the form of God by Jesus in becoming man and suffering death.

[Late Greek kensis, from Greek, an emptying, from kenoun, to empty, from kenos, empty.]

ke·notic (-ntk) adj.

kenosis [kɪˈnəʊsɪs]
n
(Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) Christianity Christ's voluntary renunciation of certain divine attributes, in order to identify himself with mankind (Philippians 2:6-7)
[from Greek: an emptying, from kenoun to empty from kenos empty]
kenotic  [kɪˈnɒtɪk] adj & n


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but some distinctions have to be drawn; and Jasper is swept away by his lyric enthusiasm for all things kenotic, apophatic, desolate, and paradoxical, particularly death-of-God theology.
Percy's fictional representation of this model of the kenotic self is Father Rinaldo Smith in The Thanatos Syndrome.
This kenotic description is paralleled by an adoptionist stance as he progressively comes into his own, claiming what is rightly his.
 
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