Communicatio Idiomatum and the Lutheran Quest for Christological Agency

IF 0.2 4区 哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY
Piotr J. Małysz
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Abstract This article compares Luther’s understanding of the unity of Christ’s person with that of his theological successors, focusing on Martin Chemnitz and Johann Gerhard. It argues that Luther’s more apophatic approach to the communicatio idiomatum and his heirs’ elaborate doctrine of the three genera of the communication do not stand in a straightforward relationship of continuity. To be sure, both are historically found in the context of Eucharistic polemics. Yet Luther’s perspective on the communicatio is driven by a desire to give expression to Christ-for-me specifically as the subject and agent of his promise; it has its driving force in the ontology of the promise as the essence of the gospel. By contrast, Luther’s successors are preoccupied with the ability of Christ’s assumed human nature to receive divine properties in the hope of shoring up the presence of Christ’s body in the Lord’s Supper. In the end, it is Luther who succeeds in presenting a more successful account of a co-extensive and internally congruent understanding of Christ’s divine and human agency, whereas his successors’ account of the unity of Christ remains undermined by intractable and ever-threatening divergence.
通信与路德教会对基督代理的追求
本文将路德对基督位格合一的理解与其神学继承者进行比较,重点讨论马丁·开姆尼茨和约翰·格哈德。它认为,路德对惯用交际的更为冷静的态度和他的继承者对交际的三种类型的详尽学说并没有直接的连续性关系。可以肯定的是,两者在历史上都是在圣餐辩论的背景下发现的。然而,路德对沟通的看法是由一种愿望驱动的,即表达基督为我,特别是作为他的承诺的主体和代理人;它的动力来自于作为福音本质的应许本体论。相比之下,路德的后继者们则专注于基督的人性接受神性的能力,希望能在主的晚餐中支撑基督的身体。最后,路德成功地提出了一种更成功的解释,即对基督的神性和人性的共同广泛和内在一致的理解,而他的继任者对基督的统一性的解释仍然被棘手和不断威胁的分歧所破坏。
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期刊介绍: The Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie which is published in three annual issues of 112 pages each, examines the exciting dialogue between Lutheran-Reformed theology and philosophy in the broadest sense, seeks to keep open a breadth of responsible thought in the controversial issue of contemporary theology, and offers a variety of ways to formulate questions. Through its international editorial board, it guarantees an exchange of theological research in German and English. Each issue features a review of periodicals which serve to keep the reader abreast of new research in the field.
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