Brian Hamilton

Analogia Entis, Again

For anyone slightly confused by the earlier debate about the analogia entis, Millinerd just posted an incredibly helpful short piece defining the analogia entis by recourse its ancient roots and present usage. His own conclusion sounds just about right to me:

So, who’ll it be? Bonaventure/Benedict or Barth? I’ll take ‘em all, the Barthian insight being wonderfully framed by the wider perspective of Bonaventure and Benedict. All shed important light on an enormous truth. What cannot be accepted is Barth’s (or Luther’s) hyperbolic desertions of large swaths of the tradition. Just as Protestant condemnations of the Mass cannot reasonably be sustained in light of the Catholic Church’s emphatic clarification… that the Mass is not a repeated sacrifice (which was the basis of the original protest), so Protestant condemnations of the analogia entis cannot be sustained in light of Benedict’s qualifications without running on the fumes of anti-Catholic prejudice (of which there is plenty).

17 December 2006 |
tags: Miscellaneous