ABSTRACT

To gain traction with the sciences, kenotic theologies tend to construe divine and creaturely causation in univocal, and so competitive, terms. Insofar as they share this framework with theories of divine design, or “contrivance,” I argue that they can inadvertently sustain their polemical foil. To move beyond such a stalled dialectic, this essay presents an account of non-contrastive transcendence that avoids elevating causation into a genus under which divine and creaturely subjects are classified. I then engage with a recent development in kenotic theology that challenges such “compatibilism” to remain both differentiated and Christologically determined.

摘要

为了获得科学的关注，虚身神学倾向于用单一的、竞争激烈的术语来解释神圣和生物的因果关系。就他们与神圣设计或“发明”理论共享这个框架而言，我认为他们可以无意中维持他们的论战箔。为了超越这种停滞不前的辩证法，本文提出了一种非对比超越性的解释，它避免将因果关系提升为一个类属，在类属下对神圣和生物主体进行分类。然后，我参与了虚身神学的最新发展，挑战这种“相容论”以保持差异化和基督论的确定。