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| Name three other sources from St. Thomas' works where we find a treatment on the processions and relations in the Trinity. |
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Disputed Questions "De Potentia"
Summa Contra Gentiles
Commentary on the Sentences (of Peter Lombard) |
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| Our minds perceive the foundation of personal relations in the Trinity precisely as: |
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| Before we study Persons in the Trinity, we need to grasp the concepts of procession and relation. |
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| Is St. Thomas trying to prove the existence or the nature of the divine processions? |
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| Why do we use the analogy of procession from our own experience? |
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| In order to be able to grasp what a procession actually is. Otherwise, we can show that there are processions in the Trinity, but cannot enlighten anyone as to what this means. |
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| Although we commonly use the word "procession" as applying to both the Son and the Holy Spirit, when does it (in its restricted sense) apply only to the Holy Spirit? |
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| When describing the reality which proceeds by way of love, not by way of nature (generation). This is not found in the created world, so we don't have a specific name for it (spiration can be used). |
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| What does St. Thomas mean by "a relation of emanation?" |
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| Procession is not a local movement, but an intelligible emanation - as an intelligible word processes from the speaker, yet remains in him. "The drawing out of a reality that has issued from a principle." |
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| According to St. Thomas, what is a real realtion founded upon? |
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| Either Quantity, or Action and Passion. |
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