Note sur la mission invisible du Verbe chez saint Thomas d'Aquin
Bernard Pottier s.j.In their endeavour to build up a theology of the non-Christian religions, theologians assume the possibility of an invisible mission of the Word in the world, along with his visible incarnation in Jesus Christ. Analyzing three passages of the Aquinas (question 43 of the Prima Pars of the Summa; distinction 15 in the first book of the Commentary of the Sentences, commentary of Hebrews 1,1-2), the A. concludes that Saint Thomas is not opposed to the idea of a universal action of the Eternal Word extending beyond the visible mission of the incarnate Word - which is still at work through the effects of his Resurrection -, yet essentially aimed at the explicit and universal manifestation of the mystery of the incarnation of that same Word in Jesus Christ.