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Reduce everything he ever wrote, and you will find an essential act of repulsion: either self-emptying into a persona, or a repudiation.
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Philippians 2:7-8 The concept of self-emptying, known in Christian history by the Greek name kenosis, is common to many of the world's religions.
Rev. Dr. Paul Bradley: Step Four: Letting Go to Let in God's Light and Love Rev. Dr. Paul Bradley 2012
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Philippians 2:7-8 The concept of self-emptying, known in Christian history by the Greek name kenosis, is common to many of the world's religions.
Rev. Dr. Paul Bradley: Step Four: Letting Go to Let in God's Light and Love Rev. Dr. Paul Bradley 2012
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Reduce everything he ever wrote, and you will find an essential act of repulsion: either self-emptying into a persona, or a repudiation.
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Since when do self-denial, abject humility, self-emptying, devotion to a crucified God, and detachment from the world equal happiness?
Learning to Die in Miami Carlos Eire 2010
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Frequent biblical references are made for support of kenosis, in the sense of overflowing goodness and self-giving, or self-emptying, such as Phil 2:5–9:
Darren Iammarino - The Emergence of God William Harryman 2009
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Denied the reassurance of a definitive response, we are invited to go back through the poem to engage the practice of self-emptying implicit in its incantatory dynamics.
Shelley's Golden Wind: Zen Harmonics in _A Defence of Poetry_ and 'Ode to the WestWind' 2007
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Zen Buddhism, which emphasizes meditative self-emptying as a harmonizing end sufficient unto itself, offers an equally generative alternative context for helping readers understand the practical dynamics of the interanimate oneness at work in voidist documents and acts.
Shelley's Golden Wind: Zen Harmonics in _A Defence of Poetry_ and 'Ode to the WestWind' 2007
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And this is where a university like this one, with its persistent but gently understated commitment to Christian faith, has a great gift to offer, in that it rests its hopes and visions on the ultimate definition of love – what we might call the self-definition of love itself, in the self-emptying of the divine into the form of our humanity so that we might be restored in divine likeness.
Archbishop - Education based only on reason is incomplete 2009
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And this is where a university like this one, with its persistent but gently understated commitment to Christian faith, has a great gift to offer, in that it rests its hopes and visions on the ultimate definition of love – what we might call the self-definition of love itself, in the self-emptying of the divine into the form of our humanity so that we might be restored in divine likeness.
Archbishop - Education based only on reason is incomplete 2009
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