Autor: Lonergan, Bernard J.F.

Buch: The Trinune God: Systematics

Titel: The Triune God: Systematics

Stichwort: Vollkommenheit (perfectio); Einwand: die Vollkommenheit einer Relation kann keine absolute Vollkommenheit sein; Antwort

Kurzinhalt: We agree that a distinct absolute reality indicates a distinct perfection; but that a distinct relative reality by itself alone indicates a distinct perfection, we deny.

Textausschnitt: 431b There seems to be in God a threefold relative perfection, distinct from the absolute perfection. For there are three real relations really distinct from one another, and a distinct reality indicates a distinct perfection. Besides, to be conscious is a perfection; but it is one thing for the Father to be conscious of the Son and the Spirit, another for the Son to be conscious of the Father and the Spirit, and still another for the Spirit to be conscious of the Father and the Son. (Fs)

431c We answer this in the following way. We agree that a distinct absolute reality indicates a distinct perfection; but that a distinct relative reality by itself alone indicates a distinct perfection, we deny. We also deny that a distinct relative reality together with its correlative indicates a perfection that is really distinct from the absolute, but we concede that it indicates a perfection that is conceptually distinct from the absolute. (Fs)

431d We reply to the added reason in the same way. For 'to be conscious' can be taken absolutely or relatively, and in God, as there is one act, there is one consciousness. And just as there are three persons, so there are three who are mutually conscious, and this mutual consciousness is not really distinct from that one consciousness whereby the three are mutually conscious. (Fs)