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Kenosis Defined

 Kenosis comes from the Greek verb κενόω, transliterated keno, rendered “to make empty”

[Phil !"#$ “destroy$” “render void, of no effect” [% &or '!'", (!')$ *omans +!'+#$ “deprive of

its- ./stification” [ &or (!0#1'  2his 3ord is /sed only five times in the 421 2he 5enosis

theory is lar6ely derived from a pec/liar e7position of Philippians !"1 8ere it is in the 4%9

3ith verse : added in order to complete the sentence [2he 4%9 '(;+ sets verses :merican *evised 9ersion, ?r1 @1 @1 Aarfield called it a “mistranslation1” 

@a/er @>G?-, re6ardin6 its /se in Philippians !", states, “Bf &hrist, 3ho 6ave /p the

appearance of his divinity and took on the form of a slave”0 3hich is similar, if not the same,

as the orthodo7 definition of  kenosis in 3hich Ces/sD divine attrib/tes 3ere “veiled” /nder

flesh1

2he other times kenoo is /sed in the 42 it is /nderstood and /sed fi6/ratively1+  2he 5C9 and

 45C9 seem to follo3 this convention renderin6 Phil !" “of no rep/tation1” 2his makes

sense in vie3 of the lar6er conte7t of the >postle Pa/lDs 3ords as he is admonishin6 /s to p/t

others ahead of o/rselves by /sin6 Ces/s &hristDs h/miliation as an e7ample the period of the

%ncarnation from the mirac/lo/s conception to 8is death on the &ross and s/bseE/ent b/rial-!

!"et nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let

each esteem others better than himself #"et each of you look out not only for his own

interests, but also for the interests of others $"et this mind be in you which was also

in %hrist &esus, 6who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be

equal with God 7but made 'imself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant,and coming in the likeness of men [Phil !0

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eternity he e2isted 0in the form of God/ 49hil 68 :t was concealed in the 0form of a

 servant/ which he took when he assumed our nature and appeared in our likeness.

who humbled himself at %alvary )he 0kenosis/.led eventually to the final obedience

of the cross ;sic< when he did.pour out his soul unto death.= "

?an I/sick, E/otin6 Cohn &alvin, affirms Ces/sD 6lory 3as cloaked /nder a “veil of flesh”[8eb 'J!'(

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Ahat % mean by the soverei6nty of God is his absol/te ri6ht, po3er and de facto

intention to 6overn all thin6s accordin6 to the co/nsel of his 3ill, 3itho/t any decisive

infl/ence from o/tside his 3ill1 Cohn Piper-