"Such a revisionist Christology seems to exert a considerable attraction on contemporary theology. With the past having been occupied by evolutionary science, so to speak, all that seems to be left for theology is the future. Yet this is a dangerous illusion. Because without a distinct salvation-historical beginning there is no terminus a quo that would give orientation to the terminus ad quem. Emergentism would make Christ himself the figure of some future God-man, the typos for an antitypos still to come. Yet such a construal would flatly contradict the [web?] of salvation history between the primordial past of a definite terminus a quo and the promised future of a terminus ad quem, the theological center and middle point being the Incarnation. This is unequivocally affirmed by Gaudium et spes 22: Christ’s mission is to restore the likeness of God. Yet a restoration presupposes a loss or a privation, an original state in which the divine likeness obtained."
Reinhard Hütter, “Humanity’s original state,” annual Aquinas lecture, Dominican House of Studies, Washington, DC, 23 January 2023, 8:15. Aquinas: "God made man right [(fecerit Deus hominem rectum)]" (Ec 7:30 Vulgate)] from the beginning.
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