A Catholic Mind Awake: The Writings of Bernard Kelly by Kelly Bernard

Author:Kelly, Bernard [Kelly, Bernard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Angelico Press
Published: 2017-12-26T16:00:00+00:00

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1 . Kelly is referring here, in shorthand, to the Latin phrase: Omne trinum est perfectum (‘all things in threes are perfect’), one of many versions of the so-called “rule of three.” Ed.

2 . The concept of finality thus enables the metaphysician to avoid the superficial metaphor for grace as the smile of a face which would still have been a perfectly good face in repose. It is precisely the revelation of grace which has introduced into metaphysics a dynamism and a movement which its own principles, left at the Aristotelian level, could hardly have discovered. And this revelation sheds light on the problems themselves of the metaphysician: The end of becoming is being, but not ultimately of that which becomes considered by itself. Change means that that which changes is not to be considered by itself. The end (result) of the body’s constant mutations is the successive participation in the common potentiality of matter. But this is not the end (finality) of the body’s mutations. The end (Finality) of becoming can be nothing imperfect. I think this means that the end of all becoming is the participation of all things in the risen humanity of Christ.

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