generation

In my gift-ontology, generation is the Son’s mode of origin from the Father. It is eternal, not temporal. It communicates the whole divine life, not a part. It yields no novelty in God. It does not mean “the Father existed first” or “the Son is made.” It means that the Son is from the Father in a manner proper to Sonship, commonly called “begetting,” such that the Son is the Father’s Word, not as an impersonal concept, but as the personal subsisting self-expression of the one simple divine act. Generation therefore supports the claim that divine intelligibility is personal: the Logos is the Son. It also supports the gift grammar: the Father gives the whole divine life to the Son without division.