in whom people believe ‘for Christ’s sake’, and whom they therefore call ‘the Father of Jesus Christ’. For that God ‘is in Christ’ according to Paul (2 Cor. 5:19), ‘dwells in Christ’ according to the Gospel of John (14:11), and is known and worshipped in the Son. This brings us to the other attempt at understanding Christ’s kenosis. 2. Instead of interpreting the kenosis in the framework of the christological doctrine of the two natures, Hans Urs von Balthasar sees it in the context of the doctrine
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