History, Metaphysics, Mary (Bonus: Mary’s Motherhood and the Trinity) – KBGF 15
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In this 15th encounter with Dr. J. Isaac Goff over Fr. Peter Damian Fehlner's "The Theologian of Auschwitz", we get a sneak peek at the rest of the book and then introduce the content of the next chapters about the theory undergirding St. Maximilian's vision of the Two Pages, the Golden Thread, and the Cause of the Immaculate.
To prepare, first we look at the meaning of Evolution and Simplification in history and in the spiritual life. This turns to the Franciscan encounter with the Critical Question of modern philosophy of relating myself to the external world, in the Franciscan mind the choice between humble reception of creation as a gift from a loving and lovable God, or pride's demand that the external world (and its source) justify itself before me.
This opens to the question of the rapport and relative priority of Theology/Scripture/Metaphysics and History. Augustine's conflictual and Bonaventure's optimistic theologies of history are contrasted, and a critical clarification of the "term" metaphysics is made between mere philosophical abstraction vs. a Christian meaning pivoting around real persons in relation in a meaningful world. Related to this is the debate between classic theism and theistic personalism, with the first tending to forget what is "the person" and the second transposing fallen human psychological experience onto the source of all being.
Also visited are the constant Franciscan problems of poverty and arbitrary voluntarism. The Sanctification of the Intellect under the interior teaching of Mary and the poverty of belonging to her as children as posited as solutions to these problems.
Finally, we conclude with a discussion about the true and real maternity of Mary bearing Jesus compared and contrasted with the Eternal Paternity of the Father begetting the Son. This important analogy cannot be taken to summarize the whole or the heart of Mary's reflecting of the Trinity in her own person, for Creation and Recreation are specifically tied to the Spirit and she brings forth, not in a divine and a-sexual way as the Father does, but specifically as a woman, The Woman.
To purchase:
The Theologian of Auschwitz: https://www.lectiopublishing.com/books.php?b=16
Book containing the article “'Quem Amor Humanavit': Whom Love Made Man. On the Motive of the Incarnation of God According to Francis of Assisi: Pre-scotistic Reflections of a Simple Man" by Fr. Johannes Schneider, OFM: https://academyoftheimmaculate.com/products/john-scotus-his-mariology
00:00:00 Introduction
00:04:00 Structure of Chapters 6-11
00:05:03 Life of St. Francis: Mary, Jesus, Church
00:09:16 Ch 6 - Development of the Cause of the Immaculate in Bonaventure and Duns Scotus
00:11:40 Ch 7 - Maximilian Kolbe and the Golden Thread: Metaphysics/Scripture and History, How to grow without becoming something else
00:16:50 Ch 8 & 9 - Move into Scotus on the Will and its reworking in a Marian Mode in Kolbe: Primacy of Will, Primacy of Charity
00:20:20 Ch 10 & 11 - Synthesis of Kolbean Mariology: Incorporation of Immaculate Conception into the life of the Church, Purpose of the MI
00:30:10 Spiritual "Evolution" of Franciscan Order in Kolbe and Fehlner
00:37:30 Church's continuing mission, from Jesus and Mary to becoming like Jesus and Mary, Return to Origin
00:39:50 Franciscan approach to mind and reality in Ven. Leone Veuthey and Fr. Peter Damian Fehlner contrasted with Modern Philosophy (Descartes, Hume, Kant) and its subjection of the personal to the natural
00:45:20 Crisis of Personal Judgement re. relation of Mind and Reality, Not "Do I know something?" but "What stance do I take - pride or humility - before creation and its creator?"
00:47:15 Growth into simplicity, simplicity is order and integration, not mystified ignorance
00:49:20 Two Pages of Kolbe: 1st - Primacy of Christ and Immaculate Conception, 2nd - living command of Mary: Do whatever He tells you (John 2:22), Franciscan Theology: drawing out the beauty of what God willed
00:56:40 Opposition to St. Maximilian - Order not Marian, making it so is to denature it - and Fehlner helping reintegrate Ecclesio-typical and Christo-typical Mariology
00:59:50 Bonaventure's optimistic view of Church History vs Augustinian pessimism of two opposed Cities in perpetual conflict
01:04:35 Franciscan problems: conflicts on poverty and arbitrary voluntarism
01:08:30 Sanctification of the intellect and the Cause of the Immaculate resolve issues of poverty and voluntarism
01:15:30 Tension between Catholic/Institutional and Apostolic/Prophetic
01:19:20 Theology and History, Ratzinger's development, Fehlner's insistence on metaphysic's priority over history
01:26:30 Ambiguity of term "Metaphysics": Pagan metaphysics of abstraction vs. Christian metaphysics of order
01:35:00 Classical Theism vs Theistic Personalism
01:38:00 Mary's Created but True Maternity of Jesus as image of Father's Eternal Paternity of the Word? Mary as image of the Father or of the Holy Spirit.
Ave Maria!
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