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Tom
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Posted 11/17/2009 11:25 AM (GMT -6)

Karl Rahner (Catholic):

"There is properly no mutual love between the Father and Son, for this would presuppose two acts.”

and

“Within the Trinity there is no reciprocal 'Thou'.”

Not good.

Tom

"Man is a person not by nature but by spirit. By nature he is only an individual." Nicolas Berdyaev

Starkman
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Posted 11/17/2009 3:10 PM (GMT -6)

Still, I can appreciate his trying to find the balance between "thou" and "The three are one."

Starkman

Tom
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Posted 11/17/2009 5:32 PM (GMT -6)

But "there is no 'thou' in God" isn't looking for the balance. It looks like eliminating one side of the scale.

I don't know Rahner that well at all, so I could be missing his point.

T

"Man is a person not by nature but by spirit. By nature he is only an individual." Nicolas Berdyaev

Starkman
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Posted 11/18/2009 4:16 PM (GMT -6)

Tom said...
But "there is no 'thou' in God" isn't looking for the balance. It looks like eliminating one side of the scale.

I don't know Rahner that well at all, so I could be missing his point.

T

That's true, but the quote alone is so "Okay, then, what is it?" I mean, is he, like, Pentecostal Oneness, Jehova Witness in heart, or what, you know?

It's be nice if we could get clarification on just what is "in" God, then.

Starkman

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