Autor: Lonergan, Bernard J.F.

Buch: The Trinune God: Systematics

Titel: The Triune God: Systematics

Stichwort: Divinarum Personarum; Trinität, göttliche Hervorgänge (processio) - intellektuelle Emanation; Terminologie; Thomas v. Aquin: psychologische Analogie; tertium comparationis (dreifaltiger Gott - menschlicher Geist)

Kurzinhalt: ASSERTION 1 -- The divine processions are to be conceived through their likeness to intellectual emanation ... That the divine processions can be conceived analogically is theologically certain...

Textausschnitt: ASSERTION 1
The divine processions are to be conceived through their likeness to intellectual emanation

Terminology

765e
procession: the origin of one from another.
767a
divine processions: generation, by which the Son is the the only-begotten (DB 54, DS 125-26, ND 7), and spiration, by which the Holy Spirit proceeds (DB 691, DS 1300-1302, ND 322). (Fs)

concept, conception, inner word: that which proceeds by virtue of intellectual consciousness determined by an act of understanding. Thus, in the first operation of the intellect definitions and hypotheses proceed, and in the second operation affirmations and negations proceed. In more recent usage, the noun 'concept' or 'conception' is restricted to the term that proceeds in the first operation; St Thomas uses the same word for both terms.1 Finally, the divine Word is word in both senses: for just as in God existence and essence are identical, so also in God the first and the second operations of the intellect are identical, and therefore in God the word as definition and the word as affirmation are identical. (Fs)

through their likeness: analogously, hence, neither essentially nor only verbally. (Fs)

emanation: any sort of originating; also called procession, process. (Fs)

intellectual emanation: the conscious origin of an act both within intellectual consciousness and by virtue of intellectual consciousness itself as determined by the act.2

Theological Note

767b That there are divine processions is of divine and catholic faith; see, for example, the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed, DB 86, DS 150, ND 12. (Fs)


That the divine processions are to be conceived is theologically certain. What is not conceived cannot be believed. But the church proposes the divine processions as to be believed. (Fs)
767c That the divine processions are not to be conceived through their essence, if conceiving something through its essence is rightly understood, is theologically certain, for to conceive something through its essence makes demonstration possible, and demonstrating a mystery of the faith is anathematized by the [First] Vatican Council (DB 1816, DS 3041, ND 137). (Fs)

767d That the divine processions can be conceived analogically is theologically certain; for according to Vatican I there is some analogical understanding of the mysteries (DB 1796, DS 3016, ND 132); and once there is analogical understanding, analogical conception ensues. (Fs)

769a That the divine processions are to be conceived according to the psychological analogy is the common opinion of theologians with some foundation in scripture and tradition.3

769b That in this psychological analogy the tertium comparationis, in which the likeness between the triune God and our mind is found, is intellectual emanation or procession seems to be the opinion of St Thomas.4 (Fs) (notabene Fußnote)