most clearly played out in the life of Jesus of Nazareth, but not exclusively there. I find Phil. 2:5–11 a helpful articulation of this movement. It can, without any forcing, be correlated: Orientation: “Though he was in the form of God.…” Disorientation: “[He] emptied himself.” New Orientation: “Therefore God has highly exalted him.…” I do not understand that in any ontological way and am not interested in Christological speculation. Rather, the life of Jesus, and especially the passion narrative,
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