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Inhabiting the Cruciform God: Kenosis, Justification, and Theosis in Paul’s Narrative Soteriology is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this groundbreaking study of Paul’s soteriology, Michael Gorman builds on his influential Cruciformity: Paul’s Narrative Spirituality of the Cross to argue that cruciformity is, at its heart, theoformity—what the Christian tradition has called theosis or participation in the life of God.

God, we must now say, is essentially kenotic, and indeed essentially cruciform.67 Kenosis, therefore, does not mean Christ’s emptying himself of his divinity (or of anything else), but rather Christ’s exercising his divinity, his equality with God. Calvin, followed by Barth, claimed that “the humilitas carnis (humility of the flesh) covers the divina majestas (divine majesty) like a curtain.”68 Similarly, Gregory of Elvira said that Christ’s majesty and divinity, though never lost, were “momentarily
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