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| Pure Unadulterated Theological Speculation | | Date Created: Nov 18, 2004, 02:18 PM |
Yeah, and it's cool. Wow. Look at von Balthasar's "Preface to the Second Edition" of Mysterium Paschale. Balthasar articulates what I have been working on for my book--the inner life and relations of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are the origin and ground of everything God does in creation and redemption. "All the contingent 'abasements' of God in the economy of salvation are forever included and outstripped in the eternal event of Love. And so what, in the temporal economy, appears as the (most real) suffering of the Cross, is only the manifestation of the (Trinitarian) Eucharist of the Son. . ." (p. ix).
Exactly right. When, for example, the Son of God experiences death on the cross as a man, this self-giving sacrifice cannot merely be assigned to his human nature, but expresses the self-denying love of the Son within the life of the Trinity. The eternal Son knows how to die to self, so when he assumes our human nature and gives himself on the cross, he dies not just as a man, but as God. The Son took on our mortal human flesh in order that he might die a divine death as man. In other words, in the death of the Son we see freely enacted the distinctively divine mode of inter-personal relations—self-denial, a kind of interpersonal, ritual death suffered for another. This is what characterizes the social life of the Trinity. I'm anxious to read the rest of MP. . . |
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