Autor: Lonergan, Bernard J.F.

Buch: A Third Collection

Titel: A Third Collection

Stichwort: B. Welte: Konzil von Nizäa (Seinsvergessenheit); statisch (als Ideal, Möglichkeit, Tatsächlichkeit), Aristoteles (Analytica Posteriora); homoousios (Athanasius )

Kurzinhalt: ... how static was the approach to reality and the apprehension of it set forth in the Nicene decree; homoousios, the Nicene decree was just as static and just as dynamic as what Athanasius found in the Bible

Textausschnitt: The biblical approach to reality, by and large, is centered on events. Its concern is dynamic. In contrast, at Nicea and in subsequent councils there emerges the static approach of Greek metaphysics, an approach concerned with the present and permanent, and so an approach that Heidegger has criticized as a forgetfulness of being. There arises accordingly the question whether theologians today have on their hands the task of finding a different way of handling the issues that for centuries were thought to have been handled satisfactorily at Nicea. (185f; Fs)
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11/12 Let us now ask how static was the approach to reality and the apprehension of it set forth in the Nicene decree. It will suffice to take the key term, homoousios. According to Athanasius this key term means that statements true of the Father also are true of the Son except that the Son is not the Father. Now is this meaning static or dynamic? Obviously we have to consider the statements that Athanasius had in mind. Nor is any difficulty involved, for Athanasius proceeds to quote a number of statements true both of the Father and of the Son. He finds them not in some text of Greek metaphysics but in the scriptures. As understood by Athanasius, then, the Nicene decree was just as static and just as dynamic as what Athanasius found in the Bible. (188; Fs)