Christ the Liberator

by Sobrino, Jon

• ISBN13: 9781570753725
• ISBN10: 1570753725
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-07-01
• Publisher: Orbis Books

Summary

Jon Sobrino continues the magisterial christology begun in Jesus the Liberator. In that book Sobrino examined the identity of Jesus in relation to his message, his interlocutors, and the conflict that led to his death. In this second volume he takes up the Resurrection of Christ, the christology of the New Testament, and finally the christological formulae of the early church councils.

Throughout Christ the Liberator Sobrino writes from the reality of faith, as set in motion by the event of Jesus Christ, and from the situation of the victims -- the "Crucified People" of history -- particularly the poor of El Salvador, with whom he works. With Christ the Liberator Sobrino's christology takes its place among the most significant contributions of Latin America to the church and theology today.

Author Biography

Jon Sobrino, a Jesuit theologian, has lived in El Salvador for over forty years

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(1)
Faith in Jesus Christ	2	(1)
The View of the Victims	3	(8)
PART I THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS
Resurrection and Victims
Viewpoint: A ``Risen'' Following and the Hope of the Victim	11	(6)
Living the Following of Jesus as Risen Beings	12	(2)
The Resurrection of Jesus and Victims	14	(3)
The Hermeneutical Problem (1): The Resurrection, a Specific Problem for Hermeneutics	17	(18)
The Problematic of Hermeneutics	17	(2)
Specifics of the Hermeneutics of the Resurrection	19	(3)
Different Hermeneutical Approaches	22	(13)
The Hermeneutical Problem (2): Hermeneutical principles from the Victims	35	(19)
The Hope of the Crucified: The Victory of Life over Death	36	(9)
The Praxis of Raising the Crucified	45	(4)
The Mystery of Reality: History as Promise	49	(5)
The Historical Problem (1): The Reality of Jesus' Resurrection	54	(12)
Accounts of the Easter Experience	54	(5)
The Reality of the Narratives and Their Meaning	59	(5)
History and Faith	64	(2)
The Historical Problem (2): The Analogy of ``Easter Experiences'' throughout History	66	(13)
On the Possibility of ``Analogous Easter Experiences'' in History	66	(8)
Celebrating Historical Fullness: Living Now as Risen Beings	74	(5)
The Theological Problem (1): The Revelation of God	79	(17)
``The God Who Raises the Dead'': A New Historical Creed	79	(2)
A Just and Partial God, Liberator of Victims	81	(3)
A God against Idols	84	(2)
A God-Mystery: The Greater God and the Lesser God	86	(3)
A God on the Way: The Futurity of God	89	(4)
A God-Mystery: The Doxology	93	(3)
The Theological Problem (2): The Revelation of Jesus	96	(17)
The Origin of Faith in Jesus	96	(9)
Faith in Jesus after Easter	105	(8)
PART II CHRISTOLOGICAL TITLES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
A Rereading from Latin America
The Titles and Their Problems	113	(11)
Dynamism in the Act of Christological Faith	113	(2)
Jesus' Relationship to God throughout His Life	115	(2)
The Christological Titles in the New Testament	117	(4)
Christological Titles at the Present Time	121	(3)
High Priest: The Mediator-Human ``without Additions'' but ``with Definitions''	124	(15)
The ``Theologal Revolution'' of the Priestly: God Accedes to Being Human	125	(4)
The ``Christological Revolution'': The True Priest? Jesus	129	(5)
True Humanity: Mercy, Faithfulness, Self-giving, Solidarity	134	(5)
Messiah: Keeping Alive the Hope of the Poor	139	(13)
The Core of Messianism: The Hope of the Poor	140	(3)
``De-Messianization'' and ``Re-Messianization'' of the Messiah Today	143	(9)
Lord: The Lordship of Christ, Hope, and Theodicy	152	(18)
The Origin and Meaning of Kyrios	153	(3)
Reflections on the Lordship of Christ	156	(14)
Son of God/Son of Man/Servant of Yahweh: The Man Who Came from God and the God Who Came in Man	170	(21)
The Traditions of Jesus as Son of God	171	(10)
The Tradition of the Son	181	(3)
Reconsideration of Father and of Sons and Daughters	184	(7)
Word: Truth and Good News	191	(18)
Origin and Meaning of Logos	191	(3)
John's Prologue: A Reflective Meditation	194	(5)
Jesus, God's Presence in Our History	199	(10)
Jesus as Eu-Aggelion	209	(12)
Jesus, Eu-Aggelion, and Orthopathy	209	(6)
The Need for Eu-Aggelion in Today's World	215	(6)
PART III CONCILIAR CHRISTOLOGY
Introduction: Concentration on the Mediator, Jesus Christ, to the Detriment of the Mediation, the Kingdom of God	221	(35)
The View of the Victims	221	(4)
Novelty in Comparison with the New Testament: The Loss of the ``Reality Principle''	225	(7)
The Constant: Concern for Salvation	232	(4)
Christological Neglect of the Kingdom of God	236	(3)
Excursus: Christianity in the Greco-Roman World	239	(1)
The Shift in the ``Theoretical Manner of Thinking''	239	(8)
The Change to ``Seeing Itself as a Religion''	247	(4)
Inculturation, Culture, and Counter-Culture	251	(5)
A God Who Can Suffer: The Pathos of Audacity and Honesty	256	(19)
Early Reflections on the Divinity of Christ and Their Problems	257	(2)
Nicaea and Its Significance	259	(4)
The Theologal Novelty	263	(5)
Which Christ Do Victims Believe in: Arian or Nicene?	268	(7)
A Human Christ: The Pathos of Reality	275	(16)
The Intuition of the Age	277	(1)
``Vere Homo'': Pathos for Humanity	278	(7)
Lessons for the Present Time	285	(6)
God in History: The Pathos of the Whole	291	(22)
The (Provisional) Culmination of a Process	291	(4)
A Short History	295	(6)
Limitations: Criticism and Reinterpretation	301	(12)
Formal and Doxological Readings of Chalcedon: Following Jesus as an Epistemological Principle	313	(18)
A Holistic Definition	314	(7)
A Doxological Definition	321	(10)
Epilogue: Memory and Journey	331	(10)
Memory: Things to Remember	332	(5)
Journey	337	(4)
Abbreviations and Short Forms	341	(2)
Notes	343	(26)
Index	369