The icon that is recognizably anchored in the actual world of decision and change, yet carries an abundance that inducts us into a larger world is - as the theologians of the Christian East consistently argued - an appropriate sign of the primordial icon, the eternal image of God which is embodied in time in the flesh and blood of Christ. As we have seen, this Christological reference brings with it an inescapable ‘kenotic’ dimension: the coexistence of infinite abundance with historical limitation is only thinkable in connection with a divine self-withholding, a voluntary absence that most powerfully testifies to loving presence.
Rowan Williams, Dostoevsky: Language, Faith, and Fiction
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