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Asymmetrical assumption : why Lutheran christology does not lead to kenoticism or divine passibility

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12/11/2019
Author
Holmes, Stephen R.
Keywords
Christology
Divine passibility
Kenosis
Lutheran theology
BT Doctrinal Theology
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Abstract
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.
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Holmes , S R 2019 , ' Asymmetrical assumption : why Lutheran christology does not lead to kenoticism or divine passibility ' , Scottish Journal of Theology , vol. 72 , no. 4 , pp. 357-374 . https://doi.org/10.1017/S0036930619000589
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Scottish Journal of Theology
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Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0036930619000589
ISSN
0036-9306
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Journal article
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© Cambridge University Press 2019. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created accepted version manuscript following peer review and as such may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1017/S0036930619000589
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/18919

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