The homoousian asserts that God is eternally in himself what he is in Jesus Christ and therefore, that there is no dark unknown God behind the back of Jesus Christ, but only he who is made known to us in Jesus Christ.
(T. Torrance, The Trinitarian Faith, p. 135)
God is at home what he is in Christ
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A true word. Still: we have to reckon with God's veiled unveiling (as Luther puts it...)
or Calvin's idea of accommodation. (contra whoever it was that said the economic trinity is the eternal trinity.)
Michael. Is that Deus Absconditis (sp?)
Luke. That's be Rahner.
Mikey. This is where I live. My kind of discussion. Do you agree with Torrance?
At the end of The Man who Was Thursday, a nightmare by GK Chesterton, Syme the protagonist, discovers that Sunday, the monstrous organiser of the whole thing, is actually God. When we get to eternity will we discover God is more then we understood Jesus to be?
(Through a class darkly vs If seen me you seen the father.)
Luke. I think when we get to heaven we'll see Jesus as more than we've understood him to be:)
(There goes trying to be short and sharp!)
That should read:
'Through a class darkly' trumps 'If you have seen me you have seen the father'?
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