This article is the fruit of engagement with Bruce McCormack’s comprehensive The Humility of the Eternal Son: reformed kenoticism and the repair of Chalcedon (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and with Christoph Schwӧbel’s essay ‘The generosity of the Triune God and the humility of the Son’ in Paul Nimmo and Keith Johnson’s Kenosis: the self-emptying of Christ in Scripture and theology (Eerdmans, 2022), a collection of contemporary essays dedicated to McCormack. Drawing on research set out in Church, Gospel and Empire: how the politics of sovereignty impregnated the West (Wipf & Stock, 2011), it investigates the difficulty that theologians have with arguing directly from Jesus’ kenotic life to God’s. The article begins by considering McCormack’s attempt to resolve the inherent contradictions necessary for the repair of Chalcedon. Recognizing that the statements about the Incarnation found in Philippians 2.5–11 from which the word ‘kenosis’ derives are the earliest we have, the article investigates his treatment of these and the difficulties that arise. It suggests an underlying problem that is itself ongoing evidence of the assumption by theologians that God is a hierarchical sovereign power. McCormack’s extraordinary answer to the question of whether there is a kenosis of the Father and the Holy Spirit with an emphatic ‘No’ is cited as evidence of this. Finally, Schwӧbel’s suggestions for a conversation with McCormack in his essay are considered as a means to a sympathetic way forward.

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虚伪还是主权？基督耶稣和神圣思想的揭示

本文是布鲁斯·麦科马克的综合著作《永恒之子的谦卑：改革的虚无主义和卡尔西顿的修复》（剑桥大学出版社，2021 年）以及克里斯托夫·施瓦贝尔的文章“三位一体神的慷慨和圣子的谦卑”的成果。保罗·尼莫和基思·约翰逊的《虚伪：圣经和神学中基督的自我倒空》（Eerdmans，2022），这是献给麦考马克的当代文章集。借鉴《教会、福音和帝国：主权政治如何渗透到西方》（Wipf & Stock，2011）中提出的研究，它调查了神学家在直接从耶稣的虚伪生活到上帝的生活进行争论时遇到的困难。本文首先考虑了麦考马克为解决卡尔西登修复所必需的固有矛盾而做出的尝试。认识到腓立比书 2.5-11 中关于道成肉身的陈述（“kenosis”一词源自该陈述）是我们所拥有的最早的陈述，本文探讨了他对这些陈述的处理以及由此产生的困难。它提出了一个根本问题，这个问题本身就是神学家假设上帝是一个等级制主权力量的持续证据。麦科马克对圣父和圣灵是否存在虚伪这一问题的非同寻常的回答是强调“不”，这被引用作为这一点的证据。最后，施韦贝尔在他的文章中提出的与麦考马克对话的建议被认为是一种以同情的方式前进的手段。