Sunday, October 29, 2006
(10:53 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
The Internet and Christology
In the later stages of the Christological controversies (briefly outlined here), the question arose of whether Christ had a genuine human will and human energeiai, that is, human operations or actions. The motivations of those who said that he did not were to stave off the possibility that Christ's human will would rebel against the divine will. For what came to be the orthodox party, however, it was more important to affirm that Christ was everything it means to be human, and this obviously includes willing and acting humanly. John of Damascus speaks for this position when he asserts that a human nature cannot be thought apart from real human actions -- not only would an inactive human nature fail to be human, but it would fail to be.The obvious question, then -- what is our ontological status when we're browsing the Internet?
