ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the implications of the resurrection of Jesus for Christian belief in God. It concentrates on an issue that is implicit at every stage of the argument concerning miracles, namely what sort of God would carry them out. The chapter describes that the real challenge of an 'orthodox' Christology is its radical theology. It also describes that Jesus grasps the significance of his own life as a human being only insofar as he perceives it to be part of eternal life of God. The individual man dedicating himself to God discovers that he is part of being-in-relation of father, son and spirit. He is part of a God who is eternally self-giving and self-emptying, a 'kenotic' God. The notion of kenosis has exercised particular attraction for Lutheran theologians. The reasons for this make for fascinating reading, linked to eucharistic theology, thus illustrating once again the point that in theology one doctrinal question invariably raises a host of others.
