God’s Eternal Yes!: An Exposition and Development of Lonergan’s Psychological Analogy of the Trinity
This article presents an overview of Lonergan’s psychological analogy of the Trinity with some proposed clarifications and developments. By way of presentation, it introduces the readers to Lonergan’s early psychological analogy in his Triune God: Systematics in the context of contemporary theologic...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Sage
[2016]
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Irish theological quarterly
Year: 2016, Volume: 81, Issue: 4, Pages: 397-419 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Lonergan, Bernard J. F. 1904-1984
/ Trinity
/ Psychology
/ Analogy
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RelBib Classification: | KDB Roman Catholic Church NBC Doctrine of God ZD Psychology |
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Summary: | This article presents an overview of Lonergan’s psychological analogy of the Trinity with some proposed clarifications and developments. By way of presentation, it introduces the readers to Lonergan’s early psychological analogy in his Triune God: Systematics in the context of contemporary theological reflection on the Trinity. Two developments are then presented, the first, following Robert Doran, is to develop the analogy as a proceeding Word of affirmation or God’s eternal Yes. Several examples are presented to show the provocative nature of this proposed development including the Church’s relationship with the Jews, Mariology, and Barth’s Christology. Second, I explore an interpretation proposed by Doran in order to reconcile the earlier analogy with Lonergan’s later analogy in light of Ignatian spiritual theology, therefore retaining the fittingness of both analogies. Finally, I propose a qualification of Doran’s fecund solution. |
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ISSN: | 1752-4989 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Irish theological quarterly
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0021140016659714 |