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On Implicit/Explicit Primal Authorizing Source

1. The distinction between implicit and explicit primal authorizing source is relative, in the sense that what functions in one context as the explicit primal authorizing source may function in another context as the implicit primal authorizing source.

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5. But this means, then, that the subject of such predications provides a material meaning not only for the christological predicates, and thus for the explicit primal authorizing source, but also for the implicit primal authorizing source. For example, the assertion that Jesus is the Son of God provides a material meaning both for "Son of God" and for "God," even while asserting who Jesus is formally – -- namely, the explicit primal authorizing source relative to the implicit primal source called "God."

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