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Tom
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Posted 4/27/2010 11:45 PM (GMT -6)

Interesting post by Peter Leithart

http://www.leithart.com/archives/000056.php

Anatolios on Perichoresis

A truly amazing article by Khaled Anatolios of the Weston Jesuit School of Theology (Cambridge, Mass) in the most recent issue of Pro Ecclesia. Anatolios is exploring the perennial question of the Spirit, and defends the traditional characterizations of the Spirit as "mutual love" and "gift" by using the concept of “disponibilite” [French for “availability”] developed by the French Catholic philosopher Gabriel Marcel. At the beginning, He points out the…

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Then Khaled Anastolios’ article is here: http://www.bc.edu/schools/stm/meta-elements/pdf/HolySpiritAnatolios.pdf

Tom

(Anastolio is a Melkite Greek Catholic)

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One Love
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Posted 4/28/2010 12:07 AM (GMT -6)

Tom, I'm tweakin', man. Did you read the conclusion of Anastolios' article? You and I talked about the SAME THING in dispositional terms, remember? From the Pneuma: The Holy Spirit as Divine Reality Reflected in Humanity as "Femininity" thread?

Posted By : One Love - 11/15/2006 5:01 PM

Tom:
If the Son is the exactly representation of the Father, then whatever dispositions are definitive of the Father are definitive of the Son. As Father and Son relate/dispose in love toward/in one another the social disposition that results is the Spirit. So I can see how it is BOTH true that the Spirit proceeds from the Father (EO is right) and from the Father and the Son (West is right). East and West are both right in what they affirm; wrong in what they deny.

This is pretty much what Doc told me.

He thought I had a really good idea here.

He said he had never thought of the Father's dispositional reality being the Holy Spirit.

Can you say "independent confirmation", boys and girls? :-)

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.

Post Edited (One Love) : 4/28/2010 12:13:22 AM (GMT-5)

One Love
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Posted 4/28/2010 12:14 AM (GMT -6)

Friggin' awesome!

Dispositional Christology is gonna be that sicknesssssssssssssssssssss! icon_bandit

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.

Post Edited (One Love) : 4/28/2010 12:34:18 AM (GMT-5)

Tom
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Posted 4/28/2010 8:05 AM (GMT -6)

Uhuh, yep. I said to myself, "Dude, he's talking about dispositions!" Leithart's summary too, he says:

...the Spirit is also the mutual love of the Father and the Son, or, to put in in Anatolios's terms, "the one by whom the Father is available to Jesus and the one by whom Jesus is available to the Father." What Anatolio is calling "availability" is I think what we'd call disposition. But if the word/concept itself doesn't equal disposition, then it's definitely behind what he's talking about.

Tom

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