Includes bibliographical references (p. [154]-163) and index.

Introduction : dangerous doctrine -- Christ's Kenosis and God's power over us -- Pauline identity politics -- Imperial omnipotence -- Abstinence or masquerade -- "Gentle omnipotence" -- Toward other modes of power -- Beyond "power over" : relational Christology -- The dissolution of God's power over us -- Theology of the cross as relational Christology -- Power for ourselves : kenotic erotics -- Divine Kenosis and human subjectivity -- Trinitarian erotics -- Human Kenosis and divine subjectivity -- Kenosis and the kinetics of subjectivity -- Beyond "power-with" : martyrs and masochists -- Feminism and masochism -- Reading masochism in Christian asceticism -- The suffering self -- Power for resistance : abuse and self-giving care -- Self-giving care as a resistance strategy -- Theological recognition of power for resistance -- Power for Christ : self-giving and incarnation -- A yielding power -- Chrism conveyed -- Passionate Christ