Karl Barth and the Incarnation: Christology and the Humility of God (Biblia.com)

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This work demonstrates the significance of Karl Barth’s Christology by examining it in the context of his orientation toward the classical tradition—an orientation that was both critical and sympathetic. To compare this Christology with the doctrine’s history, Sumner suggests first that the Chalcedonian portrait of the incarnation is conceptually vulnerable at a number of points. By recasting the...

better purchase on the identity problem through various strategies of kenosis (examined below), suggesting that the Word set aside or refrained from using some divine attributes in order to experience the limitations of human existence—and to do so fully, not holding back anything of Himself. The Reformed, by contrast, nuanced Cyril’s immanent-economic distinction through the doctrine of the extra Calvinisticum.75 Like Cyril, they held that the Word exists simultaneously in two ways: fully incarnate

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