How the Hypostatic Identity relates to the Analogical Interval in my search for a coherent Christology
A theological outlook that would aspire to collectively incoporate these stances:
primacy of Christ
hypostatic primacy
primacy of the will
aesthetic primacy (Peirce’s normative sciences)
hypostatic identity
nonformal positivities
Trinitarian grundaxiom
law of the Cross
supreme passibility
tantum quantum reciprocity
perichoretic mutual interpenetrations
symmetrical Christology
no logos asarkos
multiplicative monism
Christological monism
metaphysical non-rivalry
neo-Chalcedonism
neo-Whiteheadian space-time
cosmotheandrism
might best be articulated in an idiom that would integrate:
social, triadic metaphysics of experience
being as both entity & act
substance ontology to describe entities & relational ontology to explain entities in act
which is why Jordan Daniel Wood’s Creation as Incarnation, per my inchoate grasp, would best resonate with a semi-formal heuristic that harmonizes the best insights of:
Bracken’s neo-Whiteheadian divine matrix
Jenson’s dramatic teleology of creation
Clarke’s personalist existential Thomism
Gelpi’s Maximian synoptic narrative Christology
What About the Analogical Interval?
Oops. I almost forgot!
My extended family has more adoptees than most families. In theology, the “analogical interval” refers to the fact that we’re divine adoptees. In both my family life & in theology, that so many of us are adoptees is one of the least interesting aspects of our stories.
The Damascene’s Operatic Cipher
Consider the Damascene’s operatic cipher, where differently natured operators are synergistically co-operating per what to each is naturally operative to them in order to realize that singular, identical operated effect, that intersubjective doing, which is then manifested particularly in each person transformed by love and universally in the church transformed by love – the Totus Christus.
Might this cipher help us reconcile
hypostatic and natural logics?
perichoretic & participatory dynamics?
hypostatic identity and analogia entis?
divine esse intentionale and naturale?
infinite and finite modes?
finite becoming in infinite potency and infinite being / pure doing?
the semantical univocities of those of our references that successfully convey shared meanings and the ontological analogies that successfully convey other shared meanings even when definitions largely elude us?
Using the rubrics, above, I can vaguely intuit how Joe Bracken’s divine matrix & panentheism, Lonergan’s emergent probabilities, Don Gelpi’s social, triadic metaphysics of experience & grace as transmuted experience, Norris Clarke’s Personalist Existential Thomism, Brandon Gallaher’s Bulgakov, Robert Jenson’s Neo-Chacedonism, Symmetrical Christology & multivalent Simplicity and Jordan Daniel Wood’s Maximian Christology might all converge systematically, while affirming both the gratuities of creation & grace, denying the Logos asarkos and echoing, even if not discernibly influenced by, idealist interpretations.