Responding to Michael Magree on Patristic and Contemporary Meanings of κένωσις

In this highly appreciative response to Magree's volume, three points for critical discussion are nonetheless raised: (1) I question Magree's account of Gregory of Nyssa's interpretion of ‘kenosis’, and argue that it constitutes a significantly different, and arguably more cogent, model from that of the later Cyril; (2) I urge Magree to clarify with greater metaphysical precision what version of the communicatio idiomatum he is commending; and (3) I express some scepticism about Magree's suggestion that Cyril's rendition of ‘kenosis’ can serve any obvious feminist purpose theologically, while agreeing that the topic of ‘kenosis’ is open to several possible gendered interpretations.