TrinityExam--MidTerm Flashcards
Univocity-
one to one relationionship
Analogical-
correspondence but still breaks down
Equivocal-
no correspondence, all god talk is meaningless
Personal Properties:
Those properties which foundationally fundamentally distinguish the persons.
Relations of Origin:
The internal relations of eternal origin that distinguish the Person of the Trinity.
Paternity:
The Father eternally begets the Son and eternally spirates the Spirit
Filiation:
The Son is eternally begotten by the Father
Spiration:
The Spirit eternally proceeds from the Father [and the Son?]
Proper Predication:
patterns of speech that refer to that which distinguishes the three persons of the Trinity from each other within the one God.
Common Predication:
patterns of speech that refer to what the three persons of the Trinity hold in common with each other as the one God.
Three types of Trinitarian texts:
Inner Trinitarian, Cosmic Framework, Redemptive Mission
Inner Trinitarian Texts:
texts where we overhear the persons of the Trinity speaking to and of each other
Cosmic Framework Texts:
texts which frame the entire cosmos, as well as the entirety of God’s work in the cosmos, in relation to the Trinity
Redemptive Mission Texts:
texts which display the sending or “mission” of the Son (and, sometimes, the sending of the Spirit) as the great divine acts whereby God fulfills his redemptive purpose, establishing his dwelling among us, for the praise of his name.
Divine simplicity:
Godis not compounded of parts, or of genus and species, or of substance and accidents, or of potentiality and act, or of being and essence. He is completely self-sufficient and self-existent.
Eternal Generation:
The person of the Father eternally communicates his simple essence to the person of the Son
Univocal:
Predicating the same things of God’s fatherhood that we predicate of creaturely forms of fatherhood
Equivocal:
Predicating absolutely different things of God’s fatherhood than we predicate of creaturely forms of fatherhood
Analogical:
Acknowledging both similarity and dissimilarity between God’s fatherhood and all creaturely forms of fatherhood
Internal Actions:
Actions that remain within God
External Actions:
Actions whose effects occur outside of God
Appropriations
: The special association of certain works of the Trinity with certain persons of the Trinity based on the way certain works specially manifest personal properties of the Trinity. Certain works of the Trinity are associated with certain persons of the Trinity because those works specially manifest the personal properties of the specific persons
The Anonymous Three:
The view that the distinctions of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit only apply to the economic Trinity and not the Immanent Trinity.
FOGBOM
: Fatherhood Of God, Brotherhood Of Man. All human beings are children of God regardless of whether they are in Christ.
Double gratuity/grace:
A term that means God created freely and also redeemed freely
“Happy Land of the Trinity”:
The boundless life of Triune love that God lives in himself
Mystagogy
: Teaching that is provided for those who have already been introduced to the mysteries (sacraments)
Polanyi’s “Fiduciary Framework”:
Knowing what data to ignore and what data should be sought out as meaningful evidence presupposes an established framework within which knowledge is assemble
specific personal properties of God: p______, f______, s______
Paternity, filiation, spiration