I was probably half asleep typing Chinese in the last post. Whilst pondering on the presence of God, Jesus Christ Son of God, Holy Spirit in humanity, one would at some point come across the famous Lutheran doctrine of finitum capax infinti when Martin Luther tried to address the issue. However, he was probably building his cosmology on the traditional Greek philosophy of space and time based on the receptacle concept. Because of the limitation of a definite structure of time and space, the godliness of of Christ, Son of God, Word Made Man would seem to theologians at the time be confined within his humanity. On analysis, first, the presence of Christ would inevitably come to a vanishing point as the finite for you; second, the humanity of Christ would have to be interpreted by divine majesty and power. Calvinists would question which or what attributes of the divine Christ could be ascribed to the humanity of Christ which even Luther would admit that it must be regarded as deified. Now, if we as believers, sharing the same full humanity of Christ, who assumed our humanity through Incarnation, the same would have to apply to humanity in general. Such that, capacitas naturae would encompass finitum capax infiniti concentrating in Christ as the ultimate instance of humanitys capacity for the divine. Thus, 18th and 19th Century German theology construct from the Lutherans finitum capax infiniti into the deification of man. Is it true that man can be deified? Calvinists talked about sanctification after justification by faith purely by the Holy Spirit and not via human efforts nor intellectual methods as a continuous strife for believers on earth. What are we to strive in our daily belief after conversion? Skipping Newtonian cosmology, Kant and Schleiermacher, we now come to the field theory such that space and time are not discreet entities but exist in continuous relationship to each other in the universe superceding the old receptacle idea hence providing new light into the understanding of the omnipresence of God. I am still reading and thinking through believing...credo ut intelligam - I believe so that I may understand - St. Anslem of Canterbury from Augustines credo, ut intelligas. How about you, brethren and sisters? Time is fleeting, take heed to be close to God and to understand His Will. Amen.
Posted on: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 01:46:39 +0000
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