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God's preferential option for the poor and oppressed
How does the Gospel liberate the marginalized?
Christ took the form of a SLAVE—identifying with the oppressed, the colonized, the exploited. His exaltation is reversal: the lowest becomes highest. This grounds liberation praxis: God sides with those in slave form today.
The slave form is God's chosen location
Exaltation for the humiliated
Liberation is the pattern of Christ
μορφῇ refers to essential nature, not mere appearance
ἑαυτὸν ἐκένωσεν (emptied himself) is kenosis doctrine foundation
κύριος Ἰησοῦς Χριστός (Lord Jesus Christ) in v.11 echoes YHWH in Isaiah 45:23
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