Usually means: Emptying oneself, divine humility embodied.
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▸ noun:  (Christianity) Christ's voluntary abasement consisting of humanity and the simultaneous occultation of the Divinity.

Similar:
kenoticism, krypsis, autohomicide, perichoresis, incarnation, ascesis, personal union, Nestorianism, apocatastasis, theanthropos, more...

Types:
self-emptying, self-renunciation, self-humbling, self-abasement, self-effacement, more...

Adjectives:
divine, real, own, greek, eternal, radical, total, complete, trinitarian, true, voluntary

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Similar:
kenoticism, krypsis, autohomicide, perichoresis, incarnation, ascesis, personal union, Nestorianism, apocatastasis, theanthropos, more...

Types:
self-emptying, self-renunciation, self-humbling, self-abasement, self-effacement, more...

Adjectives:
divine, real, own, greek, eternal, radical, total, complete, trinitarian, true, voluntary



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