Communion Theories in Catholic Theology (original) (raw)

Christology and Metaphysics in the Seventeenth Century

Abstract

This chapter describes the way in which Cajetan’s account of the Incarnation was developed in later Dominican circles. It discusses the contributions of four theologians: Diego Álvarez (the first theologian to attempt a response to Suárez’s innovations), Giovanni Paolo Nazario, João Poinsot, and Jean-Baptiste Gonet. The question for these theologians lay in working out what kind of ground was required for categorial union relation held by Aquinas to exist between the human nature and the divine person. Their answer was that the relation is grounded simply on the immediate communication of the divine subsistence and existence to the human nature. One worry had by Suárez is that no action can be simply unitive, as the communication of the divine subsistence to the human nature seems to be. Nazario responded by attempting to give an account of such an action in terms of a created efflux mediating between action and passion. Poinsot maintains that subsistence might count as a mode; the ...

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