Autor: Lonergan, Bernard J.F.

Buch: The Trinune God: Systematics

Titel: The Triune God: Systematics

Stichwort: Unterschied: Emanation des Wortes - der Liebe; Intellekt - Wille

Kurzinhalt: The Emanation of the Word Differs from the Emanation of Love

Textausschnitt: The Emanation of the Word Differs from the Emanation of Love

199a Since generation results in likeness of nature, after having considered the nature of God, it remains for us to compare the emanation of a word and the emanation of love. (Fs)

199b In this comparison we must distinguish
(1) a thing itself,
(2) the understanding of it,
(3) the word concerning it, and
(4) the love for it.
For intellectual consciousness is related to something in such a way that, first, it understands it, next, from that understanding it utters a true word concerning it, third, from that understanding and word it spirates a love for it, and fourth, by virtue of that very love it is borne toward what is loved. (Fs)

199c Now, there is a true word concerning something to the extent that a perfect likeness of it is formed within the intellect. So this emanation, by which the word comes forth, results in the formation of a likeness of the thing. (Fs)

199d On the other hand, there is love for something to the extent that the one loving is inclined, borne, impelled toward what is loved, and is united with and adheres to it. So this emanation, by which loves comes forth, involves the constitution of an inclination, an impulse, an adhesion. (Fs)

199e Indeed, to some extent these two emanations are opposed to each other. Since the object of intellect is truth, and since truth is found within the intellect, the intellect is so engrossed in the formation within itself of a true likeness of something that those who devote themselves to the sciences seem rather cold and aloof, since they are not much inclined, attracted, or given to things themselves for their own sake. But since the object of will is the good, and since the good exists not within the will but externally and in things themselves, the one loving is so absorbed with what is loved that those who cultivate the affections more than the sciences are said to be blind. (Fs)

201a But if the intellect avoids blindness, and the will aloofness, then a perfect circle of consciousness is complete.1 For one begins from some thing itself in order to grasp it intellectually; once it is so grasped, it is represented by a true word; and once it is so represented, it is loved with a love that returns one to the thing as it is in itself. (Fs) (notabene) (notabene)

201b This makes clear the difference between the emanation of the word and the emanation of love. For truth and falsity are in the mind; but good and evil are in things. Therefore, because the intellect tends toward an interior truth, the intrinsic formality of the emanation of a word tends to the formation within of a true likeness of a thing. But because the will tends toward an exterior good, the intrinsic formality of the emanation of love is the actuation of an inclination toward the object loved.2 (Fs)