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'In agro dominico' - March 27, 1329
The papal bull condemning Meister EckhartArticles 10-13 : Salvation
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To condemn the tenth and twelfth article, is to suggest that something in the human nature is not received by Christ and is not transformed by the union with His deity. The Fathers use some metaphors to explain this, as is the metaphor of the iron and fire, or of the air and light: all of the air becomes bright in the light, and it also remains all of it air. The all-brightness is the deified existence as such, where no distinction can be made between man and God. The air doesn’t become like-bright but bright indeed, the exactly same light. A man becomes not like God, but God, in the exact same Chrism that the Son receives.
To condemn the eleventh article, is to suggest that Christ became a man in order to receive from the Father something for Himself (as if He didn’t have it!), and not in order to give it to man! St. Maximus Confessor writes that “the essence of the virtue that exists in each of us, is the one Logos of God … the essence of all our virtues is our Lord Himself, Jesus Christ”.[2]
Condemnation of the thirteenth article, is the result of the condemnation of the previous articles (10-12), adding to these the denial that the Holy Virgin gave birth to the Logos and is the mother of God, because this is what every saint does and Eckhart teaches in this article. A saint does spiritually what Mary did spiritually and in the ‘flesh’; besides this, having God’s Glory, being united with Him, means also that we perform all of His works with Him and we partake in all the Trinitarian life, because union with God starts above time, in His Uncreated Image, and is infinite as divinity is. The Pope did not understand the paradox of the union of time with eternity.
Cf. Gregory the Theologian : God with Gods is being united
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