#26 - "When God 'Emptied Himself': The Kenosis Hymn and the Socinian Turn

Philippians 2:6–11 has shaped centuries of Christology. Orthodox interpreters read its "emptying" (kenōsis) as a paradox of divine humility that nonetheless preserves Christ's eternal deity. Fausto Socinus and the Polish Brethren read it differently: "emptying" as moral humility and incarnation, not a divestment of divine attributes. This episode begins a careful, verse-by-verse investigation of the hymn, setting the historical scene and showing why this single passage became a decisive battleground for Trinitarian theology.