Perhaps God Deliberately Limits His Own Power For Our Benefit Flashcards
Peter Vardy suggests that God’s ? is much more limited than Christians suggest. God’s not in control of the whole of history, able to move anything around like pieces on a chessboard. It’s wrong to suggest that everything that happens is because of the will of ?
Omnipotence.
Will.
? suggests that God created the universe that his ability to act is ? limited, arguing that the universe is perfectly suited for the existence of free, rational human beings, and that in order for it to remain this way, God’s omnipotence has to be limited, which is ?-? God chose to create it in this way knowing what it would mean. So it’s right to call God omnipotent because nothing limits his power except when he chooses.
Vardy.
Necessary.
Self-imposed.
“To call God ?, therefore, is to recognise the ultimate dependence of the universe and all things within it on God” (? ?).
Almighty.
Peter Vardy.
John ?, like Aquinas and Vardy, emphasises that any limitations on God’s omnipotence are self-imposed. God isn’t constrained by logic, nor by the physical world, nor by the actions of human beings, but’s constrained in his omnipotence because he chooses to limit his own power out of love for humanity.
McQuarrie.
The idea of God being ?-? is explored by Christian theologians in the context of ? (nature of Christ). In answer to the puzzle of how Jesus could’ve been the Son of God, theologians developed a doctrine known as ?, meaning “?-?”, where God deliberately emptied himself of some of his divine attributes before coming to Earth to make Jesus’ encounter possible, based on the passage from the letter to the Philippians in the New Testament (“in your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Jesus Christ”).
Self-limited.
Christology.
Kenosis.
Self-emptying.
Christology gained in popularity in the 20th and 21st centuries because of rising interest in ? ways of thinking.
Existentialist.
