The Catholic World, Vol. 10, October, 1869 to March, 1870Various
Religion
The Catholic World, Vol. 10, October, 1869 to March, 1870
Various
Catholic Church -- Periodicals
follows that all actions radically flowing from either of my natures
are to be attributed to me as person, as the supreme and independent
principle of them; and as I, as a person, am capable of moral
dignity, all the actions, whether proceeding from my corporal or my
spiritual nature, become capable of moral worth and dignity.
In Christ, the personality or the supreme and independent principle
of action of both his natures, human and divine, being one, it is
evident that whether his actions radically proceed from his human
nature, or spring from his divine nature, they must all be attributed
to his one and single person; and as the person is infinite, the
worth and dignity of all his actions is simply infinite. As in man
the personality of both corporal and spiritual natures being capable
of morality, the action springing from either nature may have a moral
dignity and worth. We shall conclude this article by answering a few
objections raised by Unitarians against the hypostatic union. We
shall take them verbatim from Dr. Channing's lecture on _Unitarian
Christianity_:
"According to this doctrine, (the doctrine of those who hold
the hypostatic union,) Jesus Christ, instead of being one mind,
one conscious intelligent principle, whom we can understand,
consists of two souls, two minds: the one divine, the other
human; the one weak, the other almighty; the one ignorant, the
other omniscient. Now, we maintain that this is to make Christ
two beings. To denominate him one person, one being, and yet to
suppose him made up of two minds infinitely different from each
other, is to abuse and confound language, and to throw darkness
over all our conceptions of intelligent natures. According to the
common doctrine, each of those two minds in Christ has its own
consciousness, its own will, its own perceptions. They have,
in fact, no common properties. The divine mind feels none of
the wants and sorrows of the human, and the human is infinitely
removed from the perfections and happiness of the divine. Can you
conceive of two beings in the universe more distinct? We have
always thought that one person was constituted and distinguished
by one consciousness. The doctrine that one and the same person
should have two consciousnesses, two wills, two souls infinitely
different from each other, this we think an enormous tax on human
credulity."[33]
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