Sam Storms, charismatic Calvinist:
Much of the article is about terminology, translation, and background. The above quotes sum up the actual doctrine.
Roger Olson, ex-Pentecostal Arminian.
(Annoyingly, his Patheos page seems to use some magic that prevents copy-and-paste. Since I have to do it manually, I'll quote much less, and may not get it perfect.)
Olson uses the helpful analogy of "sleep": Basically, on earth, Christ's divine glory and power are present but asleep.
"In becoming a man in what we call the incarnation the Second Person of the Trinity chose to willingly suspend the exercise of his divine attributes so that he might live a genuinely human life, subject to all the limitations and demands you and I commonly experience. That which he had (all the divine attributes), by virtue of what he was (deity), he willingly chose not to use. Thus we read the gospels and see a human being doing super-human things and ask “How?” The answer is: Not from the power of his own divine nature, but through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Thus the Son of God chose to experience the world through the limitations imposed by human consciousness and an authentic human nature. The attributes of omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience were not lost or laid aside, but became latent and potential within the confines of his human nature. They are truly present in Jesus but no longer in conscious exercise. The incarnation thus means that Jesus 'actually thought and acted, viewed the world, and experienced time and space events strictly within the confines of a normally developing human person' (Gerald Hawthorne, The Presence and the Power, 210)."
Thus the Son of God chose to experience the world through the limitations imposed by human consciousness and an authentic human nature. The attributes of omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience were not lost or laid aside, but became latent and potential within the confines of his human nature. They are truly present in Jesus but no longer in conscious exercise. The incarnation thus means that Jesus 'actually thought and acted, viewed the world, and experienced time and space events strictly within the confines of a normally developing human person' (Gerald Hawthorne, The Presence and the Power, 210)."
"It isn’t that God the Son ceased to be God while he walked and ministered on the earth. Rather he voluntarily and willingly suspended the independent exercise of those divine attributes that would have been incompatible with his living an authentic human life in dependence on the Holy Spirit.
Jesus was fully human, and lived and ministered as a human being who drew on the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit to preach with power and heal the sick and cleanse the lepers and raise the dead. He was also, simultaneously, fully God, fully divine. But it wasn’t by virtue of his divine nature as Second Person of the Triune Godhead that he lived and ministered and taught and healed, but by virtue or on the basis of his constant, conscious dependence on the Holy Spirit (see John 3:34). In this way Jesus has given us an example of how God wants us to live and minister: as human beings who draw our strength and continuously derive our power from the indwelling Holy Spirit of God."
Jesus was fully human, and lived and ministered as a human being who drew on the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit to preach with power and heal the sick and cleanse the lepers and raise the dead. He was also, simultaneously, fully God, fully divine. But it wasn’t by virtue of his divine nature as Second Person of the Triune Godhead that he lived and ministered and taught and healed, but by virtue or on the basis of his constant, conscious dependence on the Holy Spirit (see John 3:34). In this way Jesus has given us an example of how God wants us to live and minister: as human beings who draw our strength and continuously derive our power from the indwelling Holy Spirit of God."
Much of the article is about terminology, translation, and background. The above quotes sum up the actual doctrine.
Roger Olson, ex-Pentecostal Arminian.
(Annoyingly, his Patheos page seems to use some magic that prevents copy-and-paste. Since I have to do it manually, I'll quote much less, and may not get it perfect.)
"In brief, Kenotic Christology is the idea that the Son of God, God the Son, the Word/Logos, voluntarily decided to "set aside" (or retract) His attributes of glory and power in becoming Incarnate as the boy and man Jesus Christ and function throughout his life on earth as a human being, not using his attributes of glory and power or even knowing about them except through revelation from his heavenly Father and the Holy Spirit."
Olson uses the helpful analogy of "sleep": Basically, on earth, Christ's divine glory and power are present but asleep.
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