Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 259

Chap.

§ 56.

I]

r^elv ova-i'a^

iroXvdeov^ i.e.

THE NAME

even as

235 Polytheistic to confess

it is

three substances in the mystery of the Trinity. hxct, Comm. in Math., c. xxviii., p. 185, eliroiv on l^eLv

ek TO ovo/xa

by the

ri'^'i

command

Tpid8o<; rrjV

deoXoyiav

r^jxlv

name

to baptize in the

TheophySel ^airrL-

irapeSwKev,

the

of

i.e.

Trinity,

Christ has revealed to us the mystery of the Divine Being. And in like sense Gregory Nazianzen uses the word when in Oration o-TT^/xara,

I., p.

i.e.

16, he writes, rpca eari irepl d€o\oyia<i appco-

there are three weaknesses with reference to

the interpretation of the Divine mystery. Thus the development of the term Theology ful.

First the

to indicate a

is

not doubt-

word was adopted from the pagan usage

speaking of the things that pertain to the

gods or God, whether materially, as declarations of divine affairs, or simply formally, as a speaking with dignity and In the conflict about the divine with a certain unction. Grecian language-consciousliving still nature of Christ the ness began to use the term OeoXoyelv actively in the sense of calling one God, and thereby OeoXoyia obtained gradually

the significance of the confession of the Deity of Christ. Since the Christological conflict speedily assumed a Trinitarian character, and the confession of the Trinity hinged upon the acknowledgment of the Deity of Christ, Theology

began gradually to be interpreted in the sense

of the

mystery

And finally, by Theolof the Divine Essence as Trinitarian. which is revealed to that understood be ogy there began to extent only we can this since to us concerning this mystery, deal with this mystery.

At

the point of history

when

the

supremacy of the Church was transferred from the East to the West, and the living word OeoXoyia was lost in the dead barbarism Theologia, this Latin term was understood to mean the revealed knowledge of the mystery of the Threefold Being of God, and by no means a prosecution of Theological departments of study. § 57.

Theological Modality of the Conception of Theology

Thomas Aquinas (Summa protested against the abuse of

Theol.

I.

making

9,

i.,

art.

7) already

the nature of Theology

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