| It requires time, denial, kenosis and even the sacrifice of one's life so that others may have life. |
| Theology has typically confined the concept of kenosis to the incarnation of the Son. |
| It is this understanding of kenosis we shall now seek to apply to God in creation. |
| Combining this with a belief in inspiration, they recognize that there is a kenosis involved in God's committing His message to human words. |
| At the end of one cycle of time, they say, we experience kenosis, an emptying. |
| The kenosis, therefore, is Christ taking on a human nature with all of its limitations, except with no sin. |
