DISCUłII CU PRIVIRE LA FILIOQUE ÎN TEOLOGIA CONTEMPORANĂ

Debates on Filioque in contemporary theology. The line separating the Orthodox from the Filioquist triadology consists in the theological method. The primary elements of the Filioquist doctrine are dialectical thinking and essentialism, doubled by a logic of the separation – because the self-sufficient reason’s cataphatism cannot overcome agnosticism –,whereas the Orthodox perspective embraces a Trinitarian vision within the Holy Spirit, equally apodictic and apophatic, personalistic and ontological. It is the dogmatic of the ecclesial, spiritual and contemplative experience versus the dogmatic of rational speculation. For the Orthodox Church Filioque has been and still remains a heresy condemned by the pan-orthodox synods and the holy fathers who have exerted their authority in the Church. From a dogmatic point of view, Filioque remains one of the crucial obstacles against the ecclesial reunification of Christendom. Despite having shown open-mindedness towards the Orthodox standpoint the Catholic Church has not relinquished Filioque, if not reaffirmed it in its official documents. Even more so, there are only insufficient signs of it renouncing the filioquist vision which penetrates its entire system of doctrines, and the theological method that has led to this doctrinarian innovation. Contemporary Catholic theology admits to a “complementary” validity of the Orthodox teaching on the Holy Spirit’s proceeding, but only in as much as it can be integrated in the Catholic filioquist triadology.