The Nature of the Trinity, Part 2: Kenotic

Lodovico Carracci - The Trinity with the Dead ...

“Christian theology has long attributed self-limitation to God in the very notion of God creating something other than Godself with a given degree of autonomy.” An all-powerful God must, of necessity, accommodate himself to the limitations of that with which he desires to be in relationship; otherwise, he remains unreachable, unknowable and unknown. But any limitation by God is only by his free will, is only in his freely made decision to share his eternal love beyond his triunity. While immutable in his being he can choose to limit himself as and when necessary, for example, to accommodate his infinitude to the finitude of his creatures.  Continue reading