Autor: Lonergan, Bernard J.F.

Buch: The Trinune God: Systematics

Titel: The Triune God: Systematics

Stichwort: Vier Hervorgänge, vier Relationen; Argument: Vaterschaft, Sohnschaft, passive, aktive Hauchung; Gegenargument; Vaterschaft - aktive Hauchung: reale oder begriffliche Unterscheidung; Schöpfung: begriffliche Unterscheidung

Kurzinhalt: QUESTION 4; Is the 'beloved in the lover'; we conclude from the real divine processions that there are four real relations in God, namely, paternity ...

Textausschnitt: Argument

235b
1 From the real procession of the Word, there follows a real relation of the word to the principle that speaks the word; and since this procession is generation in the proper sense, this real relation of the word to its principle is filiation. (Fs)

2 From the real procession of love, there follows a real relation of love to the principle that spirates love; and since this procession is not generation in the proper sense, this real relation is not filiation, and can fittingly be termed passive spiration. (Fs)

3 The intellectually conscious procession of the word is from the grasp of the intelligibility of whatever is to be uttered; moreover, from this grasp of intelligibility there emerges in the intellect that grasps it an intellectual necessity to speak the word. Since this necessity to speak the word really exists in the intellect, it is a real relation to the word to be spoken, and, once this word is uttered, a real relation to the word spoken. Finally, since in God to speak the word is to generate the Son, the real relation to the eternally spoken Word, the eternally generated Son, is the real relation of paternity. (Fs)

237a
4 The intellectually conscious procession of love is from the grasp and affirmation of the goodness of whatever is to be loved; moreover, from this grasp and affirmation of goodness there emerges in the one who grasps and affirms it an intellectual or moral necessity to spirate love; since this necessity really exists in the one who has grasped and affirmed goodness, it is a real relation to the love that is to be spirated and, once this love has arisen, a real relation to the love spirated; finally, this real relation of the spirator to what is spirated is fittingly termed active spiration. (Fs)

5 Once these matters are grasped, we conclude from the real divine processions that there are four real relations in God, namely, paternity, filiation, active spiration, and passive spiration. (Fs)

237b It might be objected1 that the relations of paternity and active spiration seem to be not real but only conceptual. For what holds for the principle that is God the Creator holds equally for the principle that is God the Father or God the Spirator. But active creation is only a conceptual relation. Therefore paternity and active spiration are likewise only conceptual relations. (Fs)

237c In reply we say that these two cases are not the same, since a principle and what originates from it are related in various ways. There is a principle that is inferior to the originated, such as an instrument that has an effect beyond its own proper perfection. There is another principle that is equal to the originated, as when the principle is really ordered to the originated and the originated in turn is really ordered to its principle; father and son are an example of this. Finally, there is a third case in which the principle is superior to the originated, as when the principle is the end of the originated. This sort of principle is not really ordered to what it originates, for an end does not exist because of that whose end it is. (Fs) (notabene)

237d Now God the creator is both principle and end of all things (DB 1785, DS 3004, ND 113), and therefore active creation is a conceptual relation only. But God the Father is not related to God the Son as creator to creature or as the end to that whose end it is. And so the two cases are not the same. (Fs)