Heaven Opens:: The Trinitarian Mysticism of Adrienne von Speyr by Matthew Lewis Sutton

Author:Matthew Lewis Sutton [Sutton, Matthew Lewis]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781451479881
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2014-02-01T05:00:00+00:00

But to apprehend

The point of intersection of the timeless

With time, is an occupation for the saint.[8]

The overcoming of human finitude, which has come from humans’ disobedience, will be conquered by the insertion of the timeless into human time. The mystery of the sending of the Son and the Holy Spirit—of the mission of the timeless into time—is best contemplated by the saint. The one who can best apprehend this mystery is the saint who has been inserted most deeply into it. The saint will best see that God’s love knows no bounds such that God has entered into our disobedience to be obedient for humanity.[9] For most, the Trinitarian missions are “the hint half guessed, the gift half understood.”[10] For the saint, however, attentive to “prayer, observance, discipline, thought, and action”—in a word, obedience—the Trinitarian missions are best understood as a gift of triune love that has sent the Son and the Holy Spirit on the mission to be obedient for humanity.[11]

Two words sum up von Speyr’s treatment of the economic Trinity: obedience and mission, Gehorsam and Sendung.[12] Defining and orienting these terms in Christ will occupy the first part of this chapter. I will define obedience as von Speyr uses the term and show that its center is in Christological obedience as the redemption of creation’s disobedience. I will then define von Speyr’s use of the term mission and show how essential this word is to her theology. The first part concludes with a brief overview of the Son’s and the Holy Spirit’s mission of obedience, which will lead into the second part of the chapter, which is an intense, comprehensive focus on the Son’s mission of obedience as von Speyr articulates it.

Von Speyr’s insistence on the words obedience and mission are the right words for our age that prefers instead the words liberation and freedom. It is not that liberation and freedom are bad words, but they receive fulfillment only in obedience and mission. Thus, it is liberation from the oppression of sin to obey the will of the Father, and freedom from the snares of the Evil One to be sent by the love of the Father.

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