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4 - The Post-Barthian Temptation

Collapse of the Eternal Son into Jesus and Surrender of an Immanent Trinity in Protology

from Part I - A Critical History of Kenotic Christologies and Their Antecedents:

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 November 2021

Bruce Lindley McCormack
Affiliation:
Princeton Theological Seminary, New Jersey
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Summary

The first two theologians treated in this chapter – Robert Jenson and Eberhard Jüngel – were conditioned by both a deep-lying attraction to revisionary metaphysics and by eschatology in their reception of Barth’s theology. This helped to uncover aspects of Barth’s dogmatics that had previously gone unnoticed. Ultimately, however, the temptation for both Jenson and Jüngel was to treat the immanent Trinity as something that is “complete” only in the eschaton. For divine kenosis, this meant that it was not an ontological precondition to incarnation but something that takes place in Jesus’ way to the cross. The third theologian treated in this chapter is Piet Schoonenberg. He shares a starting point with Jenson and Jüngel in the narrated history of Jesus of Nazareth attested in the New Testament, yet the “principles” he employs in his constructive Christology could just as easily be taken in a direction in which the second person of the Trinity is not collapsed into a human being. This chapter’s historical analysis finally raises the questions: why resist a collapse of the eternal Son into Jesus of Nazareth? Why engage in any sort of return to the received Christological dogma, however modified we might make it to be?

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The Humility of the Eternal Son
Reformed Kenoticism and the Repair of Chalcedon
, pp. 159 - 196
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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