Quiz #6

The Trinitarian missions are transitive acts of God that terminate outside of himself in creation. 

What is the two-fold reference of a Trinitarian mission in Thomas’s theology?

According to Thomas, why must temporal missions not be separated from the eternal processions? 

How does Thomas distinguish between temporal procession and mission? 

How does Thomas conceive of the divine person having a “new way of personal presence” to the creature in a temporal mission?

Which of the two modes of divine presence is described by the following statement: Through his presence, his power, and his substance, God is in all rational creatures, and all rational creatures resemble God in their rational and volitional capacities. 

Through the “special mode” of God’s presence, the rational creature may transcend his creaturely proportionality and attain not a mere likeness to God but God himself—touching on the very substance of God. 

The missions of the Son and the Spirit consist in the _____ of their own personal properties (knowledge and love, respectively) in the souls of rational creatures by grace. (Fill in the blank). 

According to Thomas’s doctrine of participation, how is the rational creature returned in a reditus to the Father?