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Gain immediate access to concise, accurate definitions of theological terms from “Abba” to “Zwinglianism,” written by two of today’s top Catholic theologians. In this third edition of A Concise Dictionary of Theology, Gerald O’Collins and Edward G. Farrugia identify 1,000 terms, providing necessary information about their origin, and their place in church history. This is not an edited work,...

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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