tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post2035354407055791586..comments2024-03-28T19:56:42.305-05:00Comments on Alexander Pruss's Blog: Relational gender essentialismAlexander R Prusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-23266079719113970352015-11-24T11:45:40.562-06:002015-11-24T11:45:40.562-06:00It's a good point that there is a disanalogy b...It's a good point that there is a disanalogy between the Trinitarian relations and the matter-antimatter relation. The Trinitarian relations have a directionality to them. I didn't mean to carry this directionality over to the gender case: the theory I am considering doesn't have any such directionality. (But a variant of it could.)Alexander R Prusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-11501189895001716922015-11-06T04:31:55.895-06:002015-11-06T04:31:55.895-06:00Very interesting post, thank you. I've been th...Very interesting post, thank you. I've been thinking about it since yesterday. <br /><br />I'm inclined to think that there is an asymmetry between all those pairs of realities you describe. In God, that would be a fundamental origin in the Father, a certain activeness, initiative. In the Son it would be the exact corresponding opposite, a certain passiveness, receptiveness, reaction.<br /><br />I see this (and I believe I am not being too original here) would be the actual cause (model) for the differences between man and woman.<br /><br />They would also be the reason why the Son incarnates as man. He is to be the origin, the source, the activeness in the God-Men sphere (the Church). This is clearly present in the the scripture, that the role of the Son changes when we move from the trinity-sphere to the church-sphere: "as the Father loved me, so have I loved you", "as the Father sent me, so I send you", and many other examples. Ephesians 5 then relates this "structure" to the man-woman pair.<br /><br />you say about the Trinity that "The only important non-contingent differences are those constituted by the relationships between them". That's right, but it doesn't mean that these relations are commutative. They can be essentially directional (and I believe they are).<br />Gorodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14160008276219455300noreply@blogger.com