The Law of Embrace: Satisfaction, Forgiveness, and the Cross in Aquinas, Lonergan, and Volf
A dialogue between Aquinas and Volf mediated by Lonergan illuminates the practical significance of Christ’s redemptive work. Aquinas contemplates the mystery of Christ’s passion as an act of satisfaction proceeding from charity that makes amends for wrongdoing. Lonergan specifies this satisfaction a...
| Published in: | Pro ecclesia |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage Publishing
2021
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Pro ecclesia
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Lonergan, Bernard J. F. 1904-1984
/ Thomas Aquinas 1225-1274
/ Volf, Miroslav 1956-
/ Redemption
/ Satisfaction
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAE Church history 900-1300; high Middle Ages KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history NBK Soteriology |
| Further subjects: | B
Bernard Lonergan
B Forgiveness B Cross B Satisfaction B Thomas Aquinas B Miroslav Volf |
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| Summary: | A dialogue between Aquinas and Volf mediated by Lonergan illuminates the practical significance of Christ’s redemptive work. Aquinas contemplates the mystery of Christ’s passion as an act of satisfaction proceeding from charity that makes amends for wrongdoing. Lonergan specifies this satisfaction as a fitting expression of sorrow for the granting of forgiveness. He further identifies the essential meaning and practical significance of redemption as the transformation of evil into good, and calls it the law of the cross. Volf delineates the significance of the cross for practices of reconciliation, the movement from exclusion to embrace through repentance, forgiveness, and making space for the other. I suggest that Volf’s framework is undergirded by Lonergan’s law of the cross and assists retrieving the latent practical significance of Aquinas’ contemplation. Satisfaction for another is interpreted as forgiveness in the movement from exclusion to embrace proceeding from charity interpreted as the will to embrace. |
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| ISSN: | 2631-8334 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Pro ecclesia
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/1063851220973334 |