Autor: Lonergan, Bernard J.F.

Buch: The Trinune God: Systematics

Titel: The Triune God: Systematics

Stichwort: Einleitung; die göttlichen Hervorgänge (processio)

Kurzinhalt: ... first we present the problem, and then we list the principal groups of opinions, according to their roots; third, we explain what intellectual emanation is; fourth, we establish three assertions; and fifth, we solve four related questions ...

Textausschnitt: 125a Since the systematic way begins from what can be understood without presupposing the understanding of anything else, we must begin with the processions. For the processions are the basis for the relations, and in accordance with our manner of conceiving, the divine persons are conceived subsequently to conceiving the relations. (Fs)

125b Regarding the processions, first we present the problem, and then we list the principal groups of opinions, according to their roots; third, we explain what intellectual emanation is; fourth, we establish three assertions; and fifth, we solve four related questions. (Fs)

125c The first of the three assertions has to do with the psychological analogy taken generically: the divine processions are to be conceived by their likeness to intellectual emanation. The second assertion has to do with the differentiation of the generic notion: two and only two divine processions can be conceived by means of their likeness to intellectual emanation, namely, the procession of the word from the speaker, and the procession of love from the speaker and the word. The third assertion has to do with an application of the specific notion: the divine emanation of the word is properly called generation but the emanation of love is not. (Fs)

125d The related questions regard the distinction between understanding and the word, the demonstrability of the divine Word, the procession of the divine Word from the understanding of creatures, and the relationship between love and what is called 'the beloved in the lover.' (Fs)

125d In all of this, as perhaps was already stated sufficiently in the first chapter, we are aiming exclusively at the proper goal of the way of synthesis. For this reason, we will not repeat here the positive foundations that are customarily adduced from church documents, from sacred scripture, and from the Fathers and the theologians. First of all, these elements are readily available in many excellent works; second, they are effectively set forth only in their own proper order, and that order is completely contrary to the order of the way of synthesis; third, our argument is already burdened with an overabundance of complexity; and fourth, we judge it most useful to exhibit separately the proper intrinsic nature of the way of synthesis; for, although the way of synthesis is only a part of theology, it is the part that is not too highly esteemed these days. (Fs)