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THE CRUCIFIXION AS REALISATION OF IDENTITY: THE GIFT OF RECOGNITION AND REPRESENTATION
Author(s) -
HENRIKSEN JANOLAV
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
modern theology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.144
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1468-0025
pISSN - 0266-7177
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0025.2006.00315.x
Subject(s) - christology , identity (music) , representation (politics) , presupposition , philosophy , epistemology , perspective (graphical) , realisation , identity formation , atonement , sociology , theology , psychology , aesthetics , social psychology , computer science , artificial intelligence , law , political science , self concept , physics , quantum mechanics , politics
This essay approaches the complex structure of the Christian's identity from the perspective of the crucifixion of Christ. Central to this approach are the concepts of recognition and representation, which are employed to clarify presuppositions of Christian identity that can be seen as theologically and philosophically prior to the doctrinal conceptions of reconciliation and atonement. The cross can be seen as a gift only if it is simultaneously conceived of as a possibility for receiving a new identity through the recognition of God both as the other represented and representing the human on the cross. On the basis of recognition and representation, implications concerning the more doctrinal formulation of Christology, anthropology and soteriology are spelled out.