Eros and the Christ - Longing and Envy in Paul's Christology (Electronic book text)

The self-emptying of Christ (kenosis) in Philippians 2 has long been the focus of attention by Christian theologians and interpreters of PaulOCOs christology. David E. Fredrickson sheds dramatic new light on familiar texts by discussing the centuries-old language of love and longing in Greek and Roman epistolary literature, showing that a OC physicsOCO of desire was related to notions of power and dominance. PaulOCOs kenotic Christology challenged not only received notions of the power of the gods but of the very nature of love itself as a component of human society.