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Kenosis (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠God's "self-emptying": creation as his self-abandonment, so nature is enlivened from within rather than governed from without.

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Kenosis (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the self-emptying of Christ into human form, which Ambrose paralleled with the moon's waning: "He emptied her that he might fill her," as Christ emptied himself to fill all things.