Un passage difficile de Novatien sur I Cor 15:27-28
The last part of Novatian's treatise on the Trinity involves numerous difficulties. The principal difficulty concerns the interpretation of I Cor 15:27-28. Are we to understand that the Son, at the close of the present economy of salvation, will be reabsorbed into the depths of the Father and w...
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Ed. Pontificia Univ. Gregoriana
1985
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Gregorianum
Year: 1985, Volume: 66, Issue: 1, Pages: 25-52 |
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| Summary: | The last part of Novatian's treatise on the Trinity involves numerous difficulties. The principal difficulty concerns the interpretation of I Cor 15:27-28. Are we to understand that the Son, at the close of the present economy of salvation, will be reabsorbed into the depths of the Father and will lose his individual subsistence? Some have understood that it was not a question of the very being of the Son, but of the exercise of the Lordship which the Father had given to him over the whole of creation. This interpretation could perhaps easily enough save Novatian's "orthodoxy", but it does not seem to do justice to his text. It is indispensable to locate this passage in the theological context of its time — in particular, in its relationship with the Trinitarian formulas of Tertullian and not with those which became usual after Nicaea. In this respect the analyses of A. Orbe remain basic. Obviously one has to avoid imputing to Novatian theses which he himself explicitly intended to reject. This having been said, one must recognize that, even though he did not follow Tertullian slavishly, he did make use of the same kind of patterns which could not but lead him to conclusions very close to those of Tertullian — with all the ambiguity that this involved. |
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