Fr. Hans, thank you for sharing these truths. This is almost too good to be true, that God would do this for us, it almost makes me want to weep. If we as the church could get hold of this, we would be changed! I am asking God that he would bless your book!
Thanks for this; it's a helpful clarification of Maximus's usage of analogy. There has been a debate forming around this topic, led primarily by Tim Troutner who has been arguing against analogy both as a general linguistic limit in theology and specifically in Christology. I have written on Troutner's position here if you are interested: https://mindyourmetaphysics.substack.com/p/analog-christ-part-1-analogy-and
“I haven’t been able to find in Maximus the precise language of becoming God “in all but essence””
Perhaps Amb 7.9 Constas trans.
“It belongs to God alone to be the end, and the completion… It belongs to beings, on the other hand, to be moved toward that end which has no beginning… passively to experience the Unqualified, without being or becoming it in essence, for everything which has come to be and is created is clearly not absolute.”
Fr. Hans, thank you for sharing these truths. This is almost too good to be true, that God would do this for us, it almost makes me want to weep. If we as the church could get hold of this, we would be changed! I am asking God that he would bless your book!
Fantastic
Wonderful distinctions.
Thanks Fr Boersma!
Thanks for this; it's a helpful clarification of Maximus's usage of analogy. There has been a debate forming around this topic, led primarily by Tim Troutner who has been arguing against analogy both as a general linguistic limit in theology and specifically in Christology. I have written on Troutner's position here if you are interested: https://mindyourmetaphysics.substack.com/p/analog-christ-part-1-analogy-and
Very interesting. I need to dig into this topic more. When will your book be published?
Thanks, Amy! I hope to send off the MS to Eerdmans sometime in September or October, and it will likely be a year from then.
I’ll be on the lookout for it!
“I haven’t been able to find in Maximus the precise language of becoming God “in all but essence””
Perhaps Amb 7.9 Constas trans.
“It belongs to God alone to be the end, and the completion… It belongs to beings, on the other hand, to be moved toward that end which has no beginning… passively to experience the Unqualified, without being or becoming it in essence, for everything which has come to be and is created is clearly not absolute.”