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Necessary, Kenotically-donated, & Self-giving Love
Necessary, Kenotically-donated, & Self-giving Love

Author(s): Bradford L. McCall
Subject(s): Theology and Religion
Published by: Wydawnictwo Diecezjalne »Adalbertinum«
Keywords: agape; philia; eros; kenosis; necessity; Thomas Jay Oord

Summary/Abstract: Following Oord and Wojtyla again, since God commands that we show necessarily “self-giving”, “self-donating” love, we therefore indeed have the ability to love others as kenotically-donating entities, just as the creating Spirit does. When we act as a genuine conduit and amplifier of the creating Spirit’s self-donating and self-giving love, we can truly and entirely and infinitely love others, just as God does. Of course, we cannot expect that we humans will always love alike unto how God does because we do not have an eternal and unchanging nature that is necessarily inclined toward love, but we are at least always able to do it.

  • Issue Year: 21/2019
  • Issue No: 2
  • Language: English