Autor: Lonergan, Bernard J.F.

Buch: Verbum: Word and Idea in Aquinas

Titel: Verbum: Word and Idea in Aquinas

Stichwort: Weisheit, Trinität

Kurzinhalt: In us the principle and term of that doubling are not identical; procession of the divine Word: the principle and the term of the doubling are identical ... Even in the Godhead the duality of wisdom is not overcome utterly

Textausschnitt: We know by what we are; we know we know by knowing what we are; and since even the knowing in 'knowing what we are' is by what we are, rational reflection on ourselves is a duplication of ourselves. In us the principle and term of that doubling are not identical. In the procession of the divine Word the principle and the term of the doubling are identical, but the relations of principle to term and of term to principle remain real, opposed, subsistent, eternal, equal personalities - Father and Son in the consubstantiality of intellectual generation. Even in the Godhead the duality of wisdom is not overcome utterly; even there in some sense one may speak of a sapientia genita. But though the duality of wisdom never disappears totally, yet it tends towards that limit. Some remarks on the approach towards the limit are our concluding concern.