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CHRISTIANITY
INTRODUCTION
THE THEOLOGICAL LOGOS ---{15}
§ 1
THE TERMS OF THE DIALOG: PRESENT DAY MAN AND CHRISTIANITY ---{16}
§ 2
THE CHARACTER OF THE DIALOG: THE THEOLOGICAL PROBLEM OF MAN ---{20}
I. The logos that reveals ---{20}
II. The theologic logos ---{21}
A) [The kerygmatic logos] ---{22}
B) [The ostensive or epideitic logos] ---{22}
C) [The scientific logos] ---{24}
---1) [The speculative logos] ---{24}
---2) [The historical logos] ---{25}
---3) [The hermeneutic logos] ---{26}
D) [The common root of the three theologies] ---27
---1) [The problematic character of the three theologies] ---{28}
------a) [Concepts of speculative theology do not form part of dogma] ---{28}
------b) [Biblical theology. Literary genre and intellectual genre] ---{28}
------c) [Historical theology] ---{30}
---2) [The three theologies mutually overlap] --{31}
III. The theological logos ---{35}
A) [The apprehended logos] ---{35}
B) [The revealing logos is based on the
---human personal logos and occurs in it] ---{36}
C) [The theological dimension of man] ---{36}
D) [Deiformity] ---{37}
E) [Theological logos as something we are] ---{38}
CHAPTER 1
THE ACCESS TO GOD IN CHRIST ---{41}
§ 1
GOD IN CHIRST ---{46}
A) The problem of credibility ---{47}
B) The scandal for the Jews ---{48}
C) Madness for the Greek ---{52}
D) The reality of Christ ---{54}
---1) [Personal adhesion to Christ] ---{56}
------a) [Faith] ---{57}
------b) [Forgiveness of sins] ---{57}
------c) [The moment of the cure] {58}
------d) [He was glorified] ---{58}
---2) [The life of Christ is a subsisting sacrament] ---{59}
E) The encounter with God in Christ ---{60}
§ 2
CHRIST AND MAN ---{65}
I. Incorporation of Christ to mankind ---{65}
---A) Revealing presence through the word ---{67}
---B) Mystical corporeity ---{71}
------1) [Incorporation in the life of each person] ---{73}
------2) [Incorporation of history to God] ---{74}
---------a) [All men historically considered find in Christ
------------their access to God] ---{75}
---------b) [Christ is the historical fundament of history] ---{76}
------3) [God somehow incorporates all nature] ---{77}
II. Promotion of man ---{77}
---A) Promotion of human life ---{78}
------1) [Christ as the only way to know what the possession of the
---------very reality of God is]---{78}
------2) [Christ as possibilitating reality] ---{79}
------3) [The impelling dimension] ---{79}
---B) Promotion of history ---{84)
CHAPTER 2
TRINITY ---{87}
A) [Christianity is the work of Christ] ---{88}
---1) [Christianity is not a result of what Christ did, Christ
------made Christianity] ---{88}
---2) [Christianity is not an ideology or spiritual movement started by Christ,
------but was the work of Christ] ---{89}
B) [How is Christianity the work of Christ?] ---{89}
---1) [The work of Christ is historical] ---{89}
---2) [Christ not only did things, but also taught by word] ---{89}
---3) [Christ said he would send the Spirit of Truth to provide
---the sense of what he had done and taught, and to do what was left
---to be done and taught] ---{91}
C) [First characteristics of Christianity] ---{91}
---1) [Universality facing the gentiles] ---{91}
---2) [Encounter with Greek wisdom] ---{92}
§ 1
THE MYSTERY OF GOD IN REVELATION ---{96}
I. What is God according to the New Testament text? ---{96}
---A) [The Trinity] ---{97}
---B) [Three persons] ---{98}
---C) [Three termini] ---{99}
II. The dogmatic definition of what God is ---{101}
A) [Functionality] ---{101}
---1) [Revelation as fundament and formal structure of all religious life] ---{102}
------a) [Individual characteristic] ---{103}
------b) [Historical characteristic] ---{104}
------c) [Cosmic characteristic] ---{104}
---2) [The functionality is essential] ---{104}
B) [Transcendence] ---{107}
---1) [Trinity prior to any time] ---{108}
---2) [Pretemporal anteriority proper to the three termini] ---{108}
---3) [Internal structure of the Trinity] ---{109}
C) [Consubstantiality] ---{114}
---a) ["Persons" never mentioned at Nicea] ---{116}
---b) [What is God? Who is God?] ---{117}
---c) [Word is begotten not created] ---{118}
§ 2 THE CONCEPTIVENESS OF THE MYSTERY ---{120}
I. The formal reality of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit ---{122}
II. In what does the processable order of their reality consist? ---{125}
III. In what does the processable structure of their reality consist? ---{127}
A) [The principle of the Trinity is the Father] ---{128}
---1) [The Father has a his-ownness] ---{129}
---2) [His-ownness because He is intelligent and volitional] ---{129}
---3) ["What" the Father is, an open reality] ---{130}
B) [Everything intellectually understood acquires actuality] ---{131}
---1) [Actualization confers to intellectually understood reality
------its characteristic of truth] ---{131}
---2) [Consubstantiality is not principle of procession,
------but the result of it] ---{132}
---3) [The Son is "begotten"] ---{133}
C) [The Holy Spirit is the completion of the Trinity] ---{135}
---1) [Why the procession of the Holy Spirit is not generation] ---{136}
---2) [Who activates the spiration of this third his-ownness?] ---{137}
---3) [Procession of the Holy Spirit a procession by the Spirit of Truth. Love is the
------consequence of the Spirit of Truth] ---{138}
IV. In what does the Trinitarian life of God consist? ---{139}
---A) [The persons implicate each other] ---{140}
---B) [Interpenetration of the persons] ---{141}
---C) [One Trinitarian life of God, a unity of respectivity] ---{143}
CHAPTER 3
CREATION ---{149}
a) [The Father produces a second person, a Son] ---{149}
b) [The personal life of God is a Trinitary life] ---{150}
§ 1
WHAT IS CREATION? ---{152}
I. The formal characteristic of the creative act ---{154}
A) [The oldest account of creation] ---{157}
---1) [First, God creates man, who has body and life] ---{159}
---2) [Second, creates a certain enclosed territory] ---{159}
---3) [A paradise for nomads] ---{159}
---4) [God creates woman] ---{159)
B) [The priestly account] ---{160}
---1) [First, the chaos, the tohu-bohu] ---{161}
---2) [Second, light and darkness] ---{161}
---3) [Third, the great storm over the waters] ---{161)
C) [The transcendence of God] ---{166}
---1) [First, creation as principle of all reality] ---{167)
---2) [Second, a creation beyond time] ---{167}
---3) [Third, God's domination through His logos] ---{169}
II. The structure of the creative act ---{172}
A) What is creation from the part of God? ---{174}
I. [The vital characteristic of the creative act] ---{175}
---1) [The Father as principle of the Trinitary reality] ---{175}
------a) [The world as procession of otherness] ---{177}
------b) [Procession of otherness as initiating] ---{178}
---2) [Creation, procession of otherness as divine initiative] ---{179}
------a) [God does not take initiatives, but has initiatives] ---{179}
------b) [The freedom of God] ---{180}
------c) [The effusion of God] ---{181}
------d) [Creative initiative lived like God, eternally] ---{184}
II. [The open essence of God] ---{185)
III. [The infinitude of the divine essence] ---{187}
---1) [First, omnipotence] ---{187}
---2) [Second, omniscience] ---{188}
---3) [Third, providence] ---{188}
B) What is creation from the part of the world? ---{190}
---1) [Reality of the things of the world, meaning-thing
------and reality-thing] ---{190}
---2) [Goodness, the real as real, the glory of God] ---{191}
---3) [The real in the world as respective] ---{192}
---4) [Open world] ---{193}
C) The integral reality of creation ---{196}
§ 2
THE MODES OF CREATION ---{200}
I. Closed essences ---{202}
II. Open essences ---{204}
A) [Man "image" of God] ---{205}
---1) ["Making"] ---{205}
---2) ["Let us..."] ---{205}
---3) ["Image"] ---{206}
------a) [Image that reflects the configuration of 'Elohim] ---{207}
------b) [Image as dominion and ownership of the entire world] ---{208}
------c) [Image as personeity] ---{209}
B) [Two questions we must ask] ---{209}
I. What is the structure of human reality? ---{209}
---1) [The molding into finitude of the absolute reality of God] ---{210}
------a) [In man the person is a consequence of his substantive reality] --- {210}
------b) [The I of man is his real truth] ---{211}
------c) [Man, in his substantive reality makes his own being,
---------which reverts by identity in the intimacy
---------of his own internal life] ---{211}
---2) [We need to explain this] ---{213}
------a) [First, the Trinitarian fundament of this radical structure of man] ---{213}
------b) [Second, the moment of finitude cannot be deduced] ---{213}
------c) [The human person is the finite form of being like God and living
---------like the Trinity] ---{213}
---3) [The creation of man as open essence is the will
------to deiformation of his life in freedom] ---{214}
II. In what does the real and effective
------sequence of his life consist? ---{216}
---1) [The fontanal presence of divine reality in man
---------is expressed in the concept of grace] ---{216}
------a) [Will to goodness] ---{219}
------b) [Will to approval] ---{219}
------c) [Will to permissiveness] ---{219}
------d) [Biographic will] ---{220}
---2) [Historical will] ---{220}
---3) [Will to origination] ---{224}
------a) [Man in body and soul is the product of evolution, taking soul
---------in the radical and basic sense of sensitive psychism] ---{224)
------b) [Creation by divine way of evolution to reach deiformation] ---{225}
III. The unity of creation ---{228}
CHAPTER 4
INCARNATION ---{233}
§ 1
THE PRESENTATION OF THE FACT IN THE NEW TESTAMENT ---{235}
A) [A first, primitive, archaic form of Christology] ---{238}
---1) [Preaching of St. Peter to the gentiles] ---{238}
---2) [Beginning of the Epistle to the Romans] ---{238}
B) [The unfolding of this Christology] ---{240}
---1) [Gospel of St. Mark] ---{240}
---2) [Gospel of St. Matthew] ---{240}
---3) [Gospel of St. Luke] ---{241}
---4) [Gospel of St. John] ---{241}
C) [St. Paul] ---{242}
---1) [Divine preexistence] ---{242}
---2) [Historical existence] ---{243}
---3) [Glorious existence] ---{243}
---4) [The first-born of all creation] {243}
D) [The divine filiation of Christ] ---{246}
§ 2
THE PRECISION OF THE FACT IN TIME ---{247}
A) Christ as manifestation of God ---{248}
B) The unity of Jesus Christ ---{249}
C) The divine filiation ---{251}
D) The physical filiation ---{252}
---1) [The Word is the eternal Son of God] ---{252}
---2) [Union of natures] ---{255)
---3) [The mysterious personal unity of Christ] ---{257}
§ 3
THEOLOGIC CONCEPTIVENESS ---{261}
I. The person of Christ ---{263}
A) Who is He? ---{263}
---I) [Christ from the point of view of the substantive being
------who makes his life] ---{264}
---II) [The reality of Christ in first act, as substantive reality] ---{272}
------1) [The physical person of the Word is fontanally present subjacent to
------the reality of Christ] ---{273}
------2) [The Trinitarian presence in Christ] ---{273}
------3) [Ultimate intimacy of the Word in Christ] ---{273}
------4) [True filial reality in Christ] ---{274}
---------a) [His-ownness in Christ] ---{276}
------------aa) [His-ownness from the point of view of God] ---{276}
------------bb) [His-ownness from the point of view of man] ---{277}
---------b) [The relationship of the substantive reality in which Christ consists
------------as Son of God with the I of his substantive being] ---{279}
---------c) [The divine reality of Christ is held by Christ in a filial way] ---{281}
B) How does He know himself as Son of God? ---{283}
C) What is His place in creation? ---{286}
II. The personal life of Christ ---{287}
A) [Phases of New Testament criticism] {290}
---1) [Textual and literary criticism of the sources] {290}
---2) [The proper vital context] ---{291}
---3) [The multiple Christologies] ---{291}
------a) [Biblical exegesis from the point of view of Christology faces
---------great difficulties] ---{291}
------b) [The problem of Christ's knowledge] ---{292}
B) [The biography of Christ] ---{298}
---1) [What is a biography?] ---{299}
---2) [Primarily what Christ makes is his life as his substantive being,
------as Incarnate Son of God] ---{301}
C) [How does man realize his biography?] ---{303}
---1) [Man is in reality with real things] ---{303}
---2) [The fundamentality of the reality of Christ] ---{305}
------a) [Christ is subsistent religation] ---{305}
------b) [Christ is subsistent revelation] ---{308}
------c) [Christ is subsisting sacrament] ---{311}
III. The work of Christ ---{313}
A) What do we understand by founding? ---{315}
B) How is that action realized? ---{319}
---1) [The death of Christ] ---{320}
---2) [The resurrection of Christ] ---{329}
------a) [Resurrection is going to the next world] ---{330}
------b) [The "spiritual body" of Christ] ---{330}
------c) [Christ resurrected goes to another world, does not return to this one, but
---------manifests himself in it] ---{332}
---3) [Death and resurrection of Christ as foundation of Christianity] ---{337}
C) The repetition of the actions of Christ ---{340}
---1) [The actions of Christ are permanent] ---{341}
---2) [The permanence is something progressive] ---{342}
---3) [The repetition of the actions of Christ mediated
---------signifyingly by Christians] ---{343}
------a) [Meaning of "signifyingly"] ---{344}
------b) [Production of what is signified] ---{345}
------c) [Sacraments as actions of Christ] ---{347}
I. The initiation ---{351}
A) [Baptism is an initiation] ---{352}
B) [Internal structure of baptism] ---{353}
---1) [Incorporation to Christ] ---{353}
---2) [The forgiveness of sins] ---{355}
---3) [Grace as presence of the Trinity] ---{356}
---4) [Regeneration] ---{356}
II. The fullness ---{357}
A) The institution of the Eucharist ---{358}
---1) [Blessing of the first cup of wine] ---{359}
---2) [Second part of the meal] ---{360}
---3) [Third part of the meal] ---{361}
---4) [Praying the second part of the Hallel] ---{362}
B) What the Church formally requests as belief in the Eucharist ---{363}
---1) [Ratramnus, IX century theologian] ---{366}
---2) [Berengarius of Tours, XI century theologian] ---{366}
---3) [The Council of Trent] ---{368}
C) The theologic conceptiveness of the Eucharist ---{371}
---1) [Food and consecration] ---{373}
---2) [Conversion into spiritual food, conversion at level of condition] ---{376}
---3) [Conversion at the level of reality] ---{378}
------a) [What is reality?] ---{379}
------b) [What is converted?] ---
------c) [What are the species?] ---{388}
------d) [The unity of consecrated bread] ---{392}
------e) [The Eucharist is formally the sacrament of personal unity] ---{395}
APPENDIX
THEOLOGIC REFLECTIONS ON THE EUCHARIST ---{397}
A) The real presence of Christ in the Eucharist ---{398}
---1) [The fact of the real presence itself] ---{398}
------a) [The oldest text (1 Cor 11:24)] ---{398}
------b) [The bread] ---{399}
------c) [The presence through conversion] ---{400}
------d) [Real presence of Christ in the consecrated bread] ---{400}
---2) [What becomes of the bread?] ---{401}
------a) First point, what is it to be real? ---{401}
------b) Second point, what is bread as food? ---{404}
------c) Third point, what is the reality of the presence of Christ in
---------the consecrated bread? ---{405}
B) The mode of the real presence ---{407}
---1) First point, what is actuality? ---{408}
------a) [Actuality is a real moment] ---{410}
------b) [Actuality is a physical moment] ---{410}
------c) [Actuality admits occurrence] ---{410}
---2) Second point, what is the human body? ---{411}
------a) [The body is a system of properties] ---{412}
------b) [The body has its own complexion] ---{412}
---3) Third point, the mode of the real presence of Christ
---------in the consecrated bread ---{413}
------a) [Christ present as actuality not as act] ---{413}
------b) [Christ present from his own personal reality] ---{414}
------c) [In this actuality Christ makes himself present
------------in himself from himself] ---{414}
------d) [Christ takes the bread] ---{414}
------e) [Christ actual in the bread] ---{415}
------f) [Christ takes the bread as food] ---{415}
------g) [Sacramental presence, bread-food as principle
------------of actuality of Christ] ---{415}
C) The formal reason for the Eucharist ---{416}
---1) First point, what is it to be banquet? ---{417}
---2) Second point, the essence of the Eucharistic banquet ---{419}
CHAPTER 5
CHURCH ---{423}
§ 1
WHAT IS THE CHURCH? ---{426}
A) [The turning of some to others] ---{426}
B) [The Church is unity] ---{429}
---1) [Sameness of life] ---{430}
---2) [Personal communion with Christ] ---{431}
---3) [The Church is Christ and the Christianity of some for others,
---------and of some by others] ---{438)
§ 2
ESCHATOLOGY ---{443}
A) [The Kingdom of God is the communion in the body of Christ] ---{445}
B) [Deiformity of personal communion in and by the Trinity] ---{445}
C) [Three personal dimensions to reach the ultimate] ---{446}
---1) [We all are a molding ad extra of the Trinitary life] ---{447}
---2) [Finite manner of being like God] ---{447}
---3) [What is death?] ---{447}
------a) [The Glory is to know God] ---{450}
------b) [Beatitude] ---{450}
------c) [Resurrection] ---{452}
§ 3
HISTORY OF DOGMA ---{454}
I. What is revelation? ---{455}
II. How does revelation occur? ---{457}
III. To whom is this revelation made? ---{458}
IV. In what does the historicity of revelation consist? ---{459}
---A) [Revelation seizes man] ---{460}
---B) [Vital theological progress] ---{461}
---C) [Tradition is something that is delivered] ---{461}
------1) [Constitutive moment of tradition] ---{463)
------2) [Continuative tradition] ---{466}
------3) [Progressive tradition] ---{467}
---------a) [Characteristics of the suppositum] ---{467}
---------b) [Progress as giving of itself] ---{470}
---------c) [The structure of progress] ---{472}
------------aa) [Progress is inscribed in a situation of the whole man] ---{474}
------------bb) [Seizure belongs to the order of possibilities] ---{475}
------------cc) [Criteria. Sameness, permanence, and con-spiracy] ---{475}
APPENDIX
EVOLUTION OF DOGMA ---{487}
§ 1
THE INITIAL REVELATION ---{489}
A) [Initial revelation as intellectual manifestation] ---{489}
---1) [Revelation as reality] ---{490}
---2) [Revealed truth as manifest reality] ---{490}
---3) [The complete formal reason of revelation] ---{492}
B) [Integral reality of the initial revelation] ---{494}
§ 2
EVOLVING CHARACTER OF TRADITION ---{497}
I. REVELATION IS "CONSTITUTIVELY" PROGRESSIVE ---{498}
A) [Revelation as "principle"] ---{498}
---1) [Revelation expanded into theology] ---{500}
---2) [Dogmatic-cognitive progress] ---{500}
---3) [Dogmatic-real progress] ---{501}
B) [Tradition is revelation historically seizing men] ---{503}
I. Constitutive tradition ---{512}
---1) [The formal characteristic of the fixation into deposit] ---{513}
---2) [Fixation of manifest realities as real] ---{514}
---3) [The intrinsically historical characteristic of revelation and its
------fixation into deposit] ---{515}
II. Continuative tradition ---{530}
---1) [Tradition is transmission of the revealed as making possible the truth
---------of the divine life in man] ---{530}
---2) [Presentation as reactualization of manifest reality to the intelligence
---------and the whole man] ---{531}
---3) [Reactualization of previous revelation] ---{532}
III. Progressive tradition ---{535}
---1) [Revelation as a giving of itself is progressive in the Church] ---{536}
---2) [Tradition, the reactualization of manifest reality is fontanal
------and progressive] ---{538}
---3) [Progress is a constitutive moment of revelation in its integral
------historical reality] ---{541}
---4) [The historical concretion of revelation is revelation in act] ---{542}
---5) [Dogmatic progress is a progress in which manifest reality continues
------to define itself] ---{543}
---6) [Real progress in the being there manifest of the deposit itself] ---{545}
---7) [Definition is fulfillment, and fontanal reflectivity is progress, stepping
------march towards fulfillment] ---{546}
II. DOGMATIC PROGRESS AS EVOLUTION ---{551}
A) Substrative characteristic of revelation ---{554}
I) Revelation in the Old Testament ---{556}
---1) The idea of God ---{557}
---2) The moral and social power of God ---{559}
---3) The transcendence of God ---{560}
II) The idea of personal Messiah ---{561}
III) The revelation of the Old and New Testament era has been fixated into
------deposit in the Church ---{562}
---1) Revelation concluded. The moment of exclusion ---{567}
---2) Exigency of subsequent manifestation ---{568}
B) The function of situation ---{569}
---I. [Identity of the body of dogmas in different situations
------through evolutive progress] ---{570}
---II. [Revelation constitutes a body or integral corporeal substrate, concluded and
------unreformable] ---{572}
---III. [Pure evolution] ---{581}
------1) [Revelation trying to reassume in its simple theological truth the
---------doctrinal evolution, the history] ---{585}
------2) [Legitimacy is theological unity] ---{589}
---------a) [Unity of universal "con-sensus"] ---{590}
---------b) [Continuation of the primitive body of the Church] ---{592}
---------c) [Unity of "con-spiracy"] ---{596}
GENERAL CONCLUSION ---{614}
A) [Man is a personal substantive reality whose personality, i.e., whose being, whose “I”, has to be constituted and configured throughout life made possible by reality and supported ultimately on it; this is the religation to the real] ---{614}
B) [The theological experience of humanity is the theological experience of the transcendence of Christianity] ---{615}
C) [Christianity is deiformity as intrinsic and formal moment of the human being,
as decisive and learning moment of his personal life, and as an intrinsically
historical moment] ---{616}