Folia Theologica 11. (2000)

László Vanyó: The Patristic Interpretation of 'Redemptio'

34 L. VANYÓ tion. The Verbum is that who form, the Spirit gave the life and the growth. By the sin the man lost the likeness, the image remained intact, because she is Christ himself. The God’s image and likeness of the man in Irenaeus has a trinitarian character.34 The living nature of the “im­age” is guaranted by the presence of the Holy Spirit, For the recapitula­tion of the image and likeness, then had had to unite both the Verbum and the Spiritus with the image. It is remarkable: the model of the first Adam is not the Logos without body, but the “pais Theou” of the “oikonomia”, that is in advance the incar­nated Word, as regards to him that the Verbum and the Spiritus had formed the first man. Also the incarnated Word had body and soul too, and the soul received immediately the Spirit, and through the mediation of the soul that has the Holy Spirit united with the body. Then in this un­ion the “eikon" is identical with Christ, and the “homoiosis” with the Holy Spirit. The “eikon" is the constant, static, permanent element, nei­ther the sin annihilates it, the “homoiosis” is yet dinamic and it is the prey of the sin, it annihilates it first, therefore the first Adam came to a standstill in the “childhood" because the Spirit who gives growth left him. The “anima” and the "corpus” are realities hardly separable, . while the Spirit keep his sovereignty then too, if He united himself with the body, that is He resides in him. The incarnation of the Word is the remodeling of the man, and the granting of the likeness by the Holy Spirit, that is the new and final period of the “oeconomia” which accom­plishes with the resurrection, when the whole human race receives the form of the new Adam.35 The recapitulation is the compendium and the abbreviatio of the past, but opens the perspective of the salvation of the whole human race, com­prehendens also the spirituals beings, consequently develops not only along the horizontal axis, however has a vertical orientation.36 34 AH V,l,3; V,2,l; V,6,l Harvey 11,316; 317; 333 ss 35 “....et de coelis in gloria Patris adventum eius ad recapitulanda universa et resus­citandam omnem carnem humani generis. ” AH 1,2,1 Harvey 1,91. "Unus Christus Jesus Dominus noster veniens per universam dispositionem et omnia in semetip- sum récapitulons” AH 111,17,6 Harvey Ii,87 36 “Ostendimus enim, quia non tunc coepit Filius Dei, existens semper apud Patrem, sed quando incarnatus est, et homo factus, longam hominum expositionem in seipso recapitulavit, in compedio nobis salutem praestans, ut quod perdideremus in Adam, id est, secumdum imaginem et similitudinem esse Dei, hoc in Christo Jesu reciperemus. ” (AH III, 19, 1 Harvey II, 95) “Verbum unigenitus, qui semper humano generi adest, unitus et cosparsus suo plasmati secundum beneplacitum

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