Spiritual Identification with Christ: Jon Sobrino, the CDF and St. Paul
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Year:
- 2007
- Journal Title:
- New Blackfriars
- Volume:
- 88
- Issue:
- 1017
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- Abstract:
The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has issued a Notification criticising Jon Sobrino's Christology. In their criticism of Sobrino's description of Jesus as a man of faith, they risk introducing a semi-Docetism by emphasising Jesus' closeness to his divine Father and his relative distance from us. Paul, on the other hand, brings Christ and believers very close together – he gives them a ‘spiritual identification’ in a common experience of death, burial, sonship, heirdom and resurrection. A parallel is also drawn between the faith/faithfulness of Christ and all Christian believers who, according to Paul, are made righteous (justified) through their faithfulness.
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- Page Range:
- 539–548
- ISSN:
- 1741-2005
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