Mediation of Xt in Prayer 430
Sku: 43000D0E060
Archival Number: A430 V32
Author: Lonergan, B.
Language(s): English
Decade: 1960
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A430: Mediation of Xt in Prayer
5 handwritten schematic pp. May be related to A429, where ‘Mediating object’ is ‘Xt and His members’ and ‘Mediating principle’ is ‘man under the New Law = w. grace of Holy Spirit.’ Obviously related to paper of same name, final section (CWL 6, 176-82). Each p. written on back of mimeographed page ‘Loyola College: Department of Theology, Theology 101,’ containing readings on revelation, Holy Spirit, and Supernatural. (The latest date in these selections is 1961).
My photocopy does not have the reverse of these pp., but I think the dates may be significant: 1961. Could these notes on the mediation of Christ in prayer be directly related to A429? Could the two together constitute a new start on De intellectu et methodo? Did BL in 1961 work out this part of his later longer paper of the same title? Did he use this as part of the opening lecture of the course? In other words, are these front pages in the file related to the later pages that clearly are notes for the 1961 De intellectu et methodo?
Later thoughts (December 27, 2010) after organizing 443-449, which clearly do belong to the 1961 De intellectu et methodo: I don't think 429-432 are part of that course. Just where they do belong remains to be determined. But they are later, I believe.
First, then, we reproduce the pages; then we compare them with the corresponding section in the paper ‘The Mediation of Christ in Prayer.’
Mediation of XT in Prayer
1 Mediation an open notion
pattern of concepts
can be applied in many manners
2 Spontaneously we think of XT objectively: Gal 4.4-6
the love of Xt: Greater love than this no man hath Jo 14.14
precept of Xt:
example of Xt:
work of Xt: redemption
Church
Xt mediates between us and the Father 1 Tim 2.5
Spirit mediates between us and Xt 1 Cor 12.3
Gilleman Le primat de la charité
Primauté
Musaeum Lovanicenses
Vachon & Ryan
[page 2]
Mediation of Xt in Prayer
1 What is immediate
oneself, as one is; as Existenz: capable of disposing of oneself
incapable of absolute disposal
all that is to be known by analysis insight
but not as so known – and has been mediated by inferior [?]
rather as the prior given
data of one’s spontaneity
of one’s deliberate decisions
living, loving – not thinking about them
2 We are (1) temples of the Holy Spirit – not our own
(2) members of Xt
(3) adopted children of God the Father
There is thus in us the Life of which St John constantly speaks
Is that life immediate or mediated
(1) It is not immediate in the sense that it is our very own, we originate it in ourselves
essentially it is a gift: redemption
sending of the Spirit New Law
a gift of the Father’s mediated by the Son and the Spirit
[page 3]
(2) from another viewpoint it is immediate and to be mediated
it can be a merely vegetative living
one is in the state of grace
one keeps out of sin
one does good deeds
one does all this only by the grace of God
but it does not occur with a label on it
and one does not stop to think: how it is one does it
that it is the life promised
fructifying[?]
like Topsy “Ah ‘spect Ah just growed”
it can be a habitually conscious living
one is not thinking of it all the time: like being in love
one easily reverts to it: one is distracted from worldliness
one is engaged in grasping all its aspects
all its implications
not as STUDY
ANALYSIS in consciously living
But as LIVING – REALIZING – OPENING
(3) The transition from the vegetative to the conscious is via prayer
prayer is: from the Holy Spirit
centered about the Mediator
to the Father through the Son
[page 4]
3 We are immediate to ourselves
to be mediated by our acts
our self-objectification
so also tho not constitutive of us as men
the gift of the Spirit
Life in the Spirit, in Xt
is to be mediated by its loving [? I don’t think that’s the right word] in us
by its rising to consciousness
4 This mediation is potentially universal – pray always
in loving our neighbor we are loving Xt
in making ourselves good Xtians, we are loving Xt
but the universality has a center, a focal pt
5 The apprehension of Xt, the focal pt, is our own apprehension
In a sense it is putting on the mind: of the apostles
of Paul and John
of the Church
of Xt
of the Spirit
But it is putting it on: in our own way
in accord with our own capacities and individuality
in response to our own needs
[page 5]
6 It is a self-mediation through another
One is becoming oneself: not just experience insight judgment
but choice decision – conversion
freely deliberately
yet deeply, strongly as tho carried along
One is doing so not alone in isolation
but in reference to Xt
qui praedestinavit nos conformes fieri imagini
through the merits of Xt
grace of Xt
example of Xt
7 It is a mutual self-mediation
not simultaneous (at least in extrinsic time)
Xt as man chose decided perfected himself
he could have had a quite different perfection
he chose the mode and manner that is ours
overcoming evil by good
transforming evil into good
death and resurrection
[RD: Comparison with part 5 of the paper ‘The Mediation of Christ in Prayer’ shows that that section came from these notes. BL used these notes in giving that part of that lecture. When, then, were these notes written? I do not think they were written in 1961, as part of that year’s course De intellectu et methodo. In the spring of 1962 he taught De methodo theologiae, and in the summer of 1962 applied mediation to the new problems that he had treated in De methodo theologiae. That seems a better context.]