The Divine Trinity: A Dogmatic Treatise by Joseph Pohle

Author:Joseph Pohle [Pohle, Joseph]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: CrossReach Publications
Published: 2019-03-19T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter IV. the speculative theological development of the dogma of the trinity

That there are Three Persons in one God is and must ever remain a sacrosanct mystery which human reason cannot fathom. It is only through Divine Revelation that we know of the existence of that immanent process of Generation and Spiration which underlies the real distinction of three Persons in the Godhead.

Enlightened and guided by faith, however, reason is able, by means of syllogistic deductions, analogies, etc., and by skilfully synthesizing the various scattered data furnished by Revelation, to attain to a progressive theological understanding of the dogma, nay even to a degree of certainty concerning some of its more abstruse features. Speculative discussion, which for safety’s sake must always keep itself solidly planted on the teaching of Revelation, as defined by the infallible Church, is concerned chiefly with two classes of problems, viz.: (1) the precise character of the two Processions per intellectum et voluntatem; and (2) the corollaries which flow therefrom with regard to the divine Relations, Properties, and Notions. To these two categories must be added the theory of the divine Appropriations and Missions. As for the degree of certitude enjoyed by these doctrines, Glossner justly observes that they “represent merely the immediate consequences of the dogma” and “are, as it were, a hedge surrounding the law, which no theologian may with impunity ignore.”[1]

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