MARÍN MENA, TOMÁS JESÚS
No
Estud. Ecles.
Article
Científica
01/01/2024
2-s2.0-85196428983
The Council of Nicaea affirmed the full divinity of the Son through the homoousios formula in order to guarantee that Jesus Christ is the true savior and divinizer of humanity. This article shows the relevance of the concept of the intratrinitarian alterity of God as the reverse of this Christological formula, as well as the theological consensus that has existed in this regard since the last century. If Christ belongs to the divine reality, it means that God does not live in eternal solitude with himself, but is essentially interpersonal. In this respect, the article demonstrates how this concept was forged by the pre-Nicean patristics and clarified by the Cappadocians. The repercussions of such an understanding of God are to be dealt with both in philosophical ontology and in systematic theology. For this reason, this article attends to the projection of intratrinitarian otherness in the salvific economy, considering particularly the doctrines of creation and incarnation. © 2024 Universidad Pontificia Comillas de Madrid. All rights reserved.
Cappadocians; Christology; history of dogma; homoousios; Theology-Philosophy relationship; Trinitarian ontology; Trinity