Autor: Lonergan, Bernard J.F.

Buch: Philosophical and Theological Papers 1958-1964

Titel: Philosophical and Theological Papers 1958-1964

Stichwort: Erlösung; vielfältige Intelligibilität

Kurzinhalt: William of Auvergne; It is like an empirical law, not like a mathematical theory. In the second place, it is not a static but a dynamic intelligibility.And finally, it is not an intelligibility that can be put in a single formula ...

Textausschnitt: 13b Such, then, are the general characteristics, the precautions that one must take, I think, in seeking a total view of the redemption. There is an intelligibility to be grasped, but that intelligibility is not a necessity. It is an expression of what God thought wise, what God thought good, and that is intelligible, but it is not an expression of what simply had to be. It is like an empirical law, not like a mathematical theory. In the second place, it is not a static but a dynamic intelligibility. It has to do with the reversal of roles: the death that is the consequence of sin becomes the means of salvation. In the third place, it is not an abstract but an incarnate intelligibility. It resides in the love Christ manifested to us and the effects of that love on us. In the fourth place, it is not a simple but a complex intelligibility; it includes the surd. There are elements to it, namely sin, that are simply nonintelligible, and there are consequences to sin that have, as it were, a devaluated intelligibility. And finally, it is not an intelligibility that can be put in a single formula but one that exhibits many aspects. (Fs) (notabene)