Le kénotisme luthérien et anglican: les christologies de Gottfried Thomasius et Frank Weston
- Submitting institution
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The University of Manchester
- Unit of assessment
- 31 - Theology and Religious Studies
- Output identifier
- 43532710
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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- Title of journal
- Etudes Theologiques et Religieuses
- Article number
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- First page
- 313
- Volume
- 89
- Issue
- 3
- ISSN
- 0014-2239
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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A - SALC
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- This article examines the kenotic Christologies of the German Lutheran theologian Gottfried Thomasius (1802-1872) and the Anglican theologian and Bishop of Zanzibar Frank Weston (1871-1924). Both are concerned to think through how the Son of God was able to assume human nature without compromising his divine attributes. Thomasius’ solution distinguishes between essential and relative divine attributes and to claim that on becoming incarnate Christ renounced only the latter. Weston argues that Christ restrained or limited the divine attributes to what was consistent with a genuine human existence. The article concludes by considering the strengths and weaknesses of these two theories.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- <br/>Anglican kenotic Christology has been disparaged by its critics as a pale, unoriginal reflection of theologies advanced more thoroughly and competently by nineteenth century German theologians. This article attempts to refute this charge by comparing the Christologies of the German Lutheran theologian Gottfried Thomasius (1802-1875) and the Anglican theologian and churchman Frank Weston (1871-1924). The article demonstrates that Weston’s distinction between the ego and will of the incarnate Logos allows him to advance a new and original kenotic Christology that avoids Thomasius’ problematic and controversial division of the divine essence into relative and absolute divine attributes.
