Catholic Word of the Day: DIVINE GENERATION, 03-06-12

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DIVINE GENERATION

The procession of the Second Person of the Trinity from the First, i.e., the generation of the Son by the Father. As explained by the Church, this generation is eternal and takes place in a manner similar to the intellectual activity of the human soul. "Just as our spirit knowing itself, produces an image of itself, which theologians call a 'word,' so God also, insofar as human can be compared to Divine, knowing Himself, generates the Eternal Word" (Roman Catechism, III, 9). Thus the generation of the Son from the Father is to be conceived purely as an intellectual generation or as an act of the Divine Intellect.

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I really never thought about the creation of the Son of God as a generation. Hmmm.

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But then I am thinking as humans think and not as God thinks.

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Natural Religion	Montanism	Ex Voto
Immanentist Apologetics	Credo Quia Absurdum	Purgatory
Beguines	Christe Eleison	Easter Controversy
Cheating	Apodictic	Confessions of St. Augustine
Coterie	Rome	Impetration
Archepiscopal Cross	Chamberlain	Herrenmoral
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Manifestation of Conscience	Anagogical Sense	A Posteriori
Sequence	Thomism	Obedience
Angels (Symbols)	Mechitarists or Mekhitarists	Epistles to the Thessalonians
Limbo	Divine Generation

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