Sunday, August 29, 2021

Eleonore Stump (Thomist): God, being in an eternal now, Always Assumed Human Nature, not at the Time of the Incarnation

  

. . . on the doctrine of eternity, God’s having an assumed human nature is not something true of God at some times but not at others, rather it is something of characteristic of God always in the limitless eternal now. God is therefore never in the state of not having an assumed human nature. For this reason, the human capacity for suffering is something that is never not characteristic of God, in the human nature whose assumption is never absent from God.  (Eleonore Stump, Atonement [Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018], 134)