St. Anselm, pray for us.
I now have completed publishing it on the Free Republic in the following installments:
Cur Deus Homo I-III
Cur Deus Homo III-V
Cur Deus Homo VI-VIII: Is God Omnipotent and Wise?
Cur Deus Homo IX-X: Did The Father Wish Christ To Die?
Cur Deus Homo XI-XIV: God's Honor, Compassion, and Justice
Cur Deus Homo XV-XVIII: Men and Angels, Perfection and Election
Cur Deus Homo XIX-XX: No Satisfaction
Cur Deus Homo XXI-XXIII: Enormity of Sin
Cur Deus Homo XXIV-XXV: Unhappiness of Man
Cur Deus Homo Book Second I-IV: Holy, Happy Man
Cur Deus Homo Book Second V-VII: The Necessity of God-Man
Cur Deus Homo Book Second VIII: The Necessity of the Virgin Mary
Cur Deus Homo Book Second IX-X: The Sinless Word
Cur Deus Homo Book Second XI: Christ Chose To Die
Cur Deus Homo Book Second XII-XV: Christ's Death Removes Sin
Cur Deus Homo Book Second XVI: Christ, Mary, Adam, Eve
Cur Deus Homo Book Second XVII-XVIII(a): Will and Necessity
Cur Deus Homo Book Second XVIII(b): Debt and Freedom
As all preceding installments, this is a Catholic-Orthodox caucus thread. All Christians as well as non-Christians are very welcome, but I ask all to maintain the caucus discipline: no interconfessional attacks, no personal attacks, and no off-topic posts. Avoid mentioning confessions outside of the caucus for any reason.
Thank you all for your company.
It is clear that Christ deserves the reward from the Father for the precious gift the He freely gave. But since Christ and the Father are one, there is nothing really that the Father can give to the Son, Who already has all that there is. It follows that the reward goes to man: "whom could he more justly make heirs of the inheritance, which he does not need, and of the superfluity of his possessions, than his parents and brethren?".
We marvel at the infinite compassion of the Father and the Son, Who say "to the sinner doomed to eternal torments and having noway of escape: 'Take my only begotten Son and make him an offering for yourself;' or these words of the Son: 'Take me, and ransom your souls.'"
We note that the reconciliation of the fallen angels remains an impossibility, not for the insufficiency of the gift, but due to the fact that the angels were created separately, and that the devil did not conspire with another to fall: "as man must not be restored by a man of a different race, though of the same nature, so no angel ought to be saved by any other angel, though all were of the same nature, for they are not like men, all of the same race [...] as they fell with none to plot their fall, so they must rise with none to aid them"
It is by the mere force of reason, rather than the testimony of the Bible, that the truth of the atonement of Christ has now been proven, and the truth of all contained in the Bible is shown.
St. Anselm, pray for us.
No trace of the Father demanding, compelling, or commanding the sacrifice of Christ, in the whole book.
keep alive