Scotus on Why Christ's Assumed Human Nature Is Not a Person | Prof. Michael Gorman

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🗓️ 27 December 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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This lecture was given on February 24th, 2024, at The Dominican House of Studies.

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About the Speaker:

Michael Gorman is professor of philosophy at The Catholic University of America. He has doctorates in philosophy and theology. He has authored over thirty academic papers and a book entitled Aquinas on the Metaphysics of the Hypostatic Union (Cambridge University Press, 2017). His main interests are metaphysics, human nature, and ethics.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tomistic Institute podcast.
0:06.8	Our mission is to promote the Catholic intellectual tradition in the university, the church, and the wider public square.
0:13.1	The lectures on this podcast are organized by university students at Temistic Institute chapters around the world.
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0:22.3	at to mystic institute.org. So Scotus on why Christ's assumed human nature is not a person.
0:32.7	Let me begin with some introductory remarks about the theology of the incarnation. It is settled Christian
0:40.2	doctrine that Jesus Christ is one person with two natures, divinity and humanity. To reject this
0:47.1	claim is to distance oneself considerably from rather clear conciliar pronouncements. But it's not just a matter of ecclesial authority.
0:57.6	As Aquinas argues effectively in the sumacontragentiles, the classic teaching gives us the best
1:04.9	interpretation of scripture, which sometimes portrays Christ as if he were divine and other times as if he were human.
1:13.6	Saying this is easy. Making good sense of it is not. One of the main difficulties can be brought out
1:21.1	by speaking of a pair of Christological principles, namely the unity principle and the integrity principle. The unity principle
1:30.6	requires us really to hold with our minds and not merely to assert with words only, that Christ
1:38.1	is one person, one person and not, let us say, a particularly well-coordinated duo. It is not enough to say that the
1:48.4	word and Jesus, although distinct individuals, think and will the same thing all the time,
1:55.1	or that Jesus has wholly given himself up to the divine will. It's actually mistaken to say that the Son of God and Jesus Christ
2:05.8	think and will the same thing as each other because there is no each other here, but instead
2:13.0	just one person. Call him the Son or call him Jesus, whichever you please. One person who thinks and
2:20.9	wills in two different ways. The integrity principle by contrast requires us really to hold with our
2:29.4	minds and not merely assert with words only that Christ is divine and human, not just impressively
2:38.2	exalted, but literally divine, not just fleshed out in a biological way, but literally human.
2:47.0	To say with Arias that the Logos is the greatest of creatures is wrong because to say this is to fail to acknowledge the fullness and integrity of Christ's divinity.
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