Autor: Lonergan, Bernard J.F.

Buch: A Third Collection

Titel: A Third Collection

Stichwort: Christologie - Person; Person Christi, Definition: Identität, Bewusstsein, Subjektivität

Kurzinhalt: By identity I understand the third of the three meanings of one; indivisum in se et divisum a quolibet alio; consciousness: intentional and conscious; subject - subjectivity

Textausschnitt: 65/6 ... I shall attempt to offer some explanation of the statement: the person of Christ is an identity that eternally is subject of divine consciousness and in time became subject of a human consciousness. I shall speak (1) of identity, (2) of human consciousness, (3) of human subjectivity, (4) of divine subjectivity, and (5) of the compatibility of one identity with the two subjectivities. (91; Fs)

66/6 By identity I understand the third of the three meanings of one. There is one in the sense of instance: a first instance is one; a second makes two; still another and there are three; and so on to infinity. (91; Fs)
64/6 There next is one in the sense of intelligible unity. There are many phases of the moon, for its appearance changes night by night. But there is only one moon, for the many appearances have a single explanation: the moon is spherical. (91; Fs)
65/6 Thirdly, there is one in the sense of one and the same. It is the one that presupposes the intelligible unity already mentioned but adds to it an application of the principles of identity and contradiction. So it is one in the sense of the old definition: indivisum in se et divisum a quolibet alio. Such is the "one and the same" of the Chalcedonian decree. (91; Fs)

66/6 Next, consciousness. Man's sensitive, intellectual, rational, and moral operations have two distinct but related characteristics. They are both intentional and conscious.