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174 The Person of the Father return to the end come about through the same realities through which the ‘exit’ from the principle was achieved. Thus, in the same way that the procession of the persons is the rationale for the production of creatures by the Wrst principle, so likewise the procession of the persons is the rationale of this return to the end; since, in the same way that we have been created through the Son and the Holy Spirit, so likewise it is through them that we are united to the ultimate end, as Augustine makes clearly apparent when he writes, ‘the principle to which we return’, that is, the Father, ‘and the form which we imitate’, that is, the Son, ‘and the grace through which we are reconciled’ [that is to say, the Holy Spirit].112 And Saint Hilary says:113 to one alone without-principle and the principle of all things we refer all things by way of the Son.114 In this discussion, the Father appears as the source and end of the whole divine economy. On the one side, the Father is the origin of all things: he is the principle of the Son and of the Holy Spirit through whom he acts on the world. It is through the generation of the Son and by the procession of the Holy Spirit that the Father exercises his paternal action. He is in this sense the source of creation, because he is the source of the persons through whom he creates the world. The Father also acts as the conclusion of the missions of Son and Spirit. The work of Son and Holy Spirit consists in leading us to the Father. The Father is thus, in an Augustinian phrase which Thomas echoes, ‘the principle to which we return’. The Father is the personal conclusion of our journey, because he is the source of the Son and the Holy Spirit through whom he is re-joined to us and we are led to him. This is the reason why Christians oVer praise to all three persons, but especially to the Father. Human beings are introduced to the Father by the Son and Holy Spirit: they are linked into the relation which the Holy Spirit and the Son have with the Father.115 It is in this sign that Christian prayer is oVered to the Father. Union with God is brought about, in the Holy Spirit, in our joining to the Son who leads us to the Father, principle without principle and source of all good. This is why Christ taught us to address our prayer to the Father.116 St Thomas underlines the close correspondence between the outlay of the immanent mystery of God and that of the Trinitarian economy. One is touching here upon the mysterious aspect of the Father’s action. Source of the communication of the divine fullness at the heart of the Trinity, the Father 112 Augustine, De vera religione, ch. 55, no. 113. 113 Hilary, De Synodis 59. XXVI (PL 10.521). 114 Thomas, I Sent. d. 14, q. 2, a. 2. For a more complete exposition of this passage, and other related texts in Thomas, see our book, La Trinité créatrice, pp. 390–402. 115 Cf. I Sent. d. 15, q. 4, a. 1. 116 IV Sent. d. 15, q. 4, a. 5, qla 3, ad 1.
The Person of the Father 175 appears at the end of our journey into Trinitarian life; we only have access to the Father in the Son and through the Spirit. The Father is thus the ‘principle without principle’ within the Trinity and the source within Trinitarian action; and, in the same way that he is source, he is also that towards which, under the operation of the Son and the Holy Spirit, human beings are lifted by grace and advance within it. Everything comes from the Father and returns to the Father.
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Acknowledgements Many people have h
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Contents Abbreviations xi Introduct
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Abbreviations ACO Acta Conciliorum
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Introduction There is no subject wh
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Relations 79 God, but also a distin
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Relations 83 invicem): it is in thi
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Relations 87 conceptual distinction
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The Person 107 2. PERSON AND ANALOG
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The Person 109 Thus, one attributes
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Missions 361 magnetism and caused t
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Missions 389 Spirit. The Son in tur
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Conclusion The Summa’s Trinitaria
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Conclusion 417 connection with the
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elievers, both religious and secula
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Bibliography 421 Bonaventure, Saint
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Bibliography 423 —— On Truth, 3
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Bibliography 429 Morerod, Ch., ‘T
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Bibliography 431 —— Trinity and
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Abelard 22, 137-138, 141, 278, 313-
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Accident 54, 59, 82, 84-87, 91-95,
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