The Remedy for Confused Kenoticism: Aquinas as a Kenotic Theologian | Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P.

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🗓️ 23 April 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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This lecture was given at a conference co-sponsored by the Aquinas Center for Theological Renewal at Ave Maria University and the Thomistic Institute entitled "Thomas Aquinas and the Crisis of Christology" in February 2020.

Bruce Marshall (Southern Methodist University) and Fr. Thomas Joseph White, OP (Angelicum) were this conference’s keynote speakers. Other speakers include: Prof. Richard Bauckham (University of St. Andrews), Prof. Oliver Crisp (University of St. Andrews), Nathan Eubank (University of Notre Dame), Fr. Anthony Giambrone, OP (École biblique et archéologique fraçaise de Jérusalem) Fr. Dominic Langevin, OP (Dominican House of Studies), Fr. Dominic Legge, OP (Dominican House of Studies), Fr. Guy Mansini, OSB (Ave Maria University), Prof. Matthew Ramage, (Benedictine College) and Daria Spezzano (Providence College).

About the speaker: Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P., is the Director of the Thomistic Institute and Assistant Professor in Dogmatic Theology at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, a Ph.L. from the School of Philosophy of the Catholic University of America, and a doctorate in Sacred Theology from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. He entered the Order of Preachers in 2001, after having practiced constitutional law for several years as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice. He has also taught at The Catholic University of America Law School and at Providence College. He is the author of The Trinitarian Christology of St. Thomas Aquinas (Oxford University Press, 2016).

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0:00.0	Chapter 2 of the letter to the Philippians tells us that the son, though he was in the form of God,
0:06.0	emptied himself, taking on the form of a slave, being found in the likeness of men.
0:12.0	The Gospels add many rich details to this. He was born in Bethlehem, felt hunger and fatigue,
0:18.0	sorrow, and anger, and ultimately was scourged, crucified, and killed.
0:24.4	Every Christian is therefore committed in some sense, I think, to the profession of faith
0:29.9	that the eternal son of God emptied himself in becoming man and suffering for us.
0:35.9	But what precisely does it mean to speak of the canosis
0:40.3	or self-emptying of the sun?
0:43.3	Now in my written version of the paper,
0:45.3	I have several paragraphs here
0:47.3	detailing the views found in contemporary conotic Christology.
0:51.3	I'm going to skip most of this for the interest of time, but let me just say here, just this.
0:59.0	Although there are important differences among its proponents, at least one contemporary proponent of
1:07.0	Canotic Theology, Stephen Evans, who is the editor of the 2006 Oxford University Press volume
1:13.2	Exploring Canotic Christology, writes in his introduction to that volume,
1:18.0	a summary of Canosis Christology in this way.
1:21.0	What is given up in the incarnation is not divinity,
1:24.6	but some of the divine prerogatives,
1:26.9	so that a kinetic understanding of Christ's incarnation is consistent with his full divinity, but some of the divine prerogatives, so that a kinetic understanding of
1:28.6	Christ's incarnation is consistent with his full divinity."
1:33.8	Now on this point, I know well that the positions of other famous canonists, you might
1:41.9	say, people like Hans-Ruz-Baldazar or Carl Bart are complex.
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