I just found out out about the term Kenosis through watching a youtube clip by Shinzen Young. It's a very interesting concept, I thought I'd share it here for anybody else, who like myself, was thus far ignorant of this.
Unfortunately, I can't watch the video on this PC. Still, it sounds almost Buddhist-like. There is some conjecture (though little empirical evidence) that Jesus's family business may have put him in contact with traders - and monks - from the far east, meaning he could very well have studied Eastern Religious Philosophies like Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, etc. I certainly read much of the Gospels with that in mind. I'm more of an Omnist with Eastern leanings, so Jesus's teachings are easily digestible to me within that framework. -Dropa Blue
THe idea of Kenotic Christianity has been around for a long time, it is usually tied with the "DEATH OF GOD" movement, aka. Thomas Altizer. That held that God "died" or divested himself of divinity in the act of incarnating himself in the person of Jesus. The attage is "God poured out is man, man poured out is God." Poured out meaning emptying ones self, divesting oneself of "self". To give up, as in the ego, he who seekds to save his life will lose it but he who loses his life will find it. From a Christian standpoint we are to "lose ourselves" or pour ourselves (out own desires, passions dreams etc.) out in service to others. "Other" not "Self" is to be the focus and through that process we are to become less "self" and more "other" or that is to realize that the true self is other, that our true identity rest seeing the true self as existing in all others of which we are a part. Interesting possibility fof sure.
