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