Autor: Lonergan, Bernard J.F.

Buch: The Trinune God: Systematics

Titel: The Triune God: Systematics

Stichwort: Sendung: Sohn - Geist; sichtbar - unsichtbar; Vernunft - Wille

Kurzinhalt: QUESTION 31 - Is the Son also sent invisibly and the Holy Spirit visibly? - ... inasmuch as the three divine persons produce in a creature those effects that regard the intellect, these are attributed to the Son by appropriation ... invisibly ...

Textausschnitt: 499b Our answer to this question is that some effects of grace regard more the intellect and others more the will. Those that regard the intellect express a certain likeness to the Son, who in God is the Word spirating Love.1 Those that regard the will bear a likeness to the Holy Spirit, who in God is proceeding Love. Therefore, inasmuch as the three divine persons produce in a creature those effects that regard the intellect, these are attributed to the Son by appropriation,2 while those that regard the will are attributed to the Holy Spirit by appropriation.3 In this sense the Son is said to be sent invisibly.4

499c Since, however, the Christian life, which the Holy Spirit interiorly directs, is 'hidden with Christ in God,'5 it was appropriate for the invisible mission of the Holy Spirit to be manifested sensibly by certain exterior signs.6 These manifestations in the form of a dove, of a bright cloud, of wind, and of tongues of fire, in which the Holy Spirit is symbolized in a sign,7 are said to be visible missions. (Fs)