Autor: Lonergan, Bernard J.F.

Buch: Verbum: Word and Idea in Aquinas

Titel: Verbum: Word and Idea in Aquinas

Stichwort: Konzeptualist: Sicherheit des Denkens; Verstehen d. Trinität

Kurzinhalt: Remove the effort to understand, and understanding will decrease. Imperfectly we grasp why God is Father, Word, and Spirit ...

Textausschnitt: ... for one can be certain only because one understands, or else because one believes someone else who certainly understands. It is only inasmuch as different concepts proceed from one act of understanding that different concepts are seen to be joined by a necessary nexus. Remove the effort to understand, and understanding will decrease; as understanding decreases, fewer concepts are seen to be joined by a necessary nexus; and as this seeing decreases, certitudes decrease. To stop the process, either one must restore the effort to understand or one must appeal not to intellect but to some higher or lower power.
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Imperfectly we grasp why God is Father, Word, and Spirit, inasmuch as we conceive God, not simply as identity of being, understanding, thought, and love, but as that identity, and yet with thought because of understanding, and love because of both, where 'because' means not the logical relation between propositions but the real processio intelligibilis of an intellectual substance. What is truly profound is also very simple.