Separation Instead Of Distinction
The separation of the Word and Jesus of Nazareth is explicitly mentioned in the notification about Jacque Dupuis and again in Dominus Iesus nr. 10f. In nr. 2 of the notification it is stated It must also be firmly believed that Jesus of Nazareth, Son of Mary and only Savior of the world, is the Son and Word of the Father. For the unity of the divine plan centered in Jesus Christ, it must also be held that the salvific action of the Word is accomplished in and through Jesus Christ, the Incarnate...
no handle on the cross kosuke koyama
The Japanese theologian Kosuke Koyama sums up his image of Christ in the sentence, No handle on the Cross and made it the title of a book.9 Koyama directs our attention toward the central event in the life of Jesus, his death on the cross, which in Christianity is accepted as a saving event for all humankind, unique in its offer and its effect. The impossibility of classifying Jesus is based upon an ultimately radically changed understanding of God. Koyama expresses the incomparabil-ity of...
karl rahner
When in 1951 the 1500th anniversary of the Council of Chalcedon was commemorated, Karl Rahner wrote an article Chalcedon - End or Beginning 1 Rahner pleaded for beginning because - as he wrote - the knowledge of God can only be genuine, only make blessed, in the knowledge of his incomprehensibility at that point, then, in which comprehension and the determining limits of what is known are jointly transcended in the Incomprehensible and the Unlimited. And he continues Because every truth of the...
Hans Waldenfels
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Waldenfels, Hans. Christus und die Religionen. English Jesus Christ and the religions an essay in theology of religions Hans Waldenfels. p. cm. Marquette studies in theology no. 62 Includes bibliographical references p. and index. ISBN-13 978-0-87462-739-8 pbk. alk. paper ISBN-10 0-87462-739-7 pbk. alk. paper 1. Theology of religions Christian theology 2. Jesus Christ Person and offices. I. Title. BT83.85.W36 2009 261.2 dc22 2009 Marquette...
acknowledgments
Habent sua fata belli. When Terentianus Maurus, a Latin grammarian, probably living toward the end of the 2nd century A.D., wrote this, he was thinking about the reader who determines the destiny of a book. For the full text of the often-cited verse claims that pro captu lectoris, depending on the capacity of the reader, little books have their fate. However, I am of the opinion that books find their destiny already in the time of their origin. At least regarding this little book I can confirm...