Stichwort: Inkarnation

Autor, Quelle: Lonergan, C2

Titel: Inkarnation, Bedingungen

Index: Bedingungen der Inkarnation

Kurzinhalt: A third step would be to state the conditions of the possibility of the Incarnation. A first condition would be that the Father, Son, and Spirit be identities in the positive sense: each is himself. A second condition would be that ...

Text: 258d A third step would be to state the conditions of the possibility of the Incarnation. A first condition would be that the Father, Son, and Spirit be identities in the positive sense: each is himself. A second condition would be that they be identities in the restrictive sense with regard to one another: The Father is not the Son; the Father not the Spirit; the Son is not the Spirit. A third condition would be that the Son need not be an identity in the restrictive sense with regard to some rational creature: the Son can become a man. A fourth condition is that a man may have his identity not in himself but in another. To affirm the possibility of the Incarnation is to affirm that these conditions can have been fulfilled. To affirm the Incarnation as a fact is to say that these conditions have been fulfilled. To say what the Incarnation means is to explain the conditions of its possibility. (Fs)