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kenoses

kenoses is the plural of kenosis.

Meaning of kenosis

Noun

kenosis (countable and uncountable, plural kenoses)

  1. Christ's voluntary abasement consisting of humanity and the simultaneous occultation of the Divinity.
    • So then, kenosis is the general way in which God interacts with the world. It is interesting to ponder that the term kenosis is most frequently linked to Christ's voluntary renunciation of certain divine attributes in order to identify himself with mankind, as recorded in the Pauline hymn found in...2018, Bradford McCall, A Modern Relation of Theology and Science Assisted by Emergence and Kenosis, Wipf and Stock, →ISBN, page 61

Questions about kenoses

What is kenoses the plural of?
Kenoses is the plural of kenosis.

Words near kenoses in the dictionary

  1. kenophobia
  2. kenopsia
  3. Kenora
  4. Kenora District
  5. Kenorland
  6. kenoses
  7. Kenosha
  8. Kenosha County
  9. kenosis
  10. kenotheme
  11. kenothemes

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