by cyranorox » May 26th, 2010, 8:31 pm
P-dave, not a correction but a comment. God for us is seen primarily through Christ, but the Thomists seem to start with an abstraction, or the Father, of whom we know very little: His Paternity, and His Word as shown in the personality, teaching, deeds and person of Christ. Since the Tetragramatron is Christ, not the Father, all the OT knowledge, certainly all the stories of encounter & epiphany, tells of Christ and not directly of the Father. So a lot of the Thomist language looks odd if predicated of Christ, or of the Trinity-and-Incarnation. And of course, we do not agree that God is Pure Act, and a lot follows from that for the T's. We really cannot know the Essence, but we also cannot know the essence of anyone else; it's not an objett of the kind of knowledge of which we are capable.
@Nerd- the womb of the Theotokos was wider than the heavens since it contained That which the heavens cannot span, the Second Person. There is a series of poetic paradoxes in the Akathist [praises] to her, and also on G&H Friday, eg: Today He who hung the earth is hung on the tree; today the creator of life is placed in the tomb.
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