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Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration – By Joseph Ratzinger
Author(s) -
Johnson Luke Timothy
Publication year - 2008
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.1468-0025.2007.00456.x
Subject(s) - baptism , theology , citation , philosophy , history , classics , law , political science
“It is in Jesus that the promise of the new prophet is fulfilled....We have to start here if we are truly to understand the figure of Jesus as it is presented to us in the New Testament; all that we are told about his words, deeds, sufferings, and glory is anchored here. This is the central point, and if we leave it out of account, we fail to grasp what the figure of Jesus is really all about, so that it becomes self-contradictory and, in the end, unintelligible....[The] teaching [of Jesus] does not come from any school. ....[It] is not the product of human learning, of whatever kind. It originates from immediate contact with the Father....It is the Son’s word” (pp. 6-7).