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Spiritual Identification with Christ: Jon Sobrino, the CDF and St Paul
Author(s) -
Turner Geoffrey
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
new blackfriars
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1741-2005
pISSN - 0028-4289
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-2005.2007.00189.x
Subject(s) - faith , theology , eucharist , christology , closeness , criticism , jesus christ , philosophy , doctrine , identification (biology) , religious studies , sociology , law , political science , mathematical analysis , botany , mathematics , biology
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.