of suffering and temptation that reveal the nothingness of human beings before God. In ways that go counter to our expectations, God is revealed in the powerlessness and folly of the cross (see 1 Cor 1:17–31). Sergius Bulgakov (1871–1944) understood revelation “kenotically” as the divine glory manifested in God’s self-humbling. See Kenosis; Lutheranism; Theologia Gloriae. (Lat. “theology of glory”). (a) Polemically contrasted by Martin Luther (1483–1546) with the theology of the
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