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Review: Jesus and Community
Jesus and Community Jesus and Community, Gerhard Lohfink (translated by john P. Galvin. Fortress Press (ISBN: 9780800618025) 1984. Summary: How Jesus fulfilled Israel’s call, first in the contrast society of the Twelve, and then in early Christian communities. One of my delightful discoveries as a Christian was that faith was not just a “me and Jesus” thing. Contrary to Western individualism,…
Review: Prayer Takes Us Home
Prayer Takes Us Home Prayer Takes Us Home, Gerhard Lohfink, Translated by Linda M. Maloney. Liturgical Press (ISBN: 9780814688069) 2020. Summary: What Christians believe about prayer and the various ways Christians pray and experience God in prayer. Last year, I had the chance to review Gerhard Lohfink’s Why I Believe in God, which I named my Best Religious Memoir of 2025. His warm…
Review: Why I Believe in God
Why I Believe in God, Gerhard Lohfink, Linda M. Maloney, translator. Liturgical Press (ISBN: 9780814689974) 2025. Summary: A New Testament professor testifies to the reasons for his own faith in God in the form of a memoir. Over the years of reading various works of New Testament scholarship, I came across the name of Gerhard Lohfink. Lohfink was a Catholic priest and theologian, teaching New…
Auferstehung denken
An der Auferstehung scheiden sich die Geister, auch innerhalb der Christenheit. Einig ist man sich aber offenbar in einem Punkt: Mit ihr steht und fällt alles. Die Frage nach der Auferstehung zielt ohne Umschweife auf das Zentrum des christlichen Glaubens. Von daher ist die Beschäftigung mit der Auferstehung auch Kern der christlichen Theologie.
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He who 'forgives' you-out of love-takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done...Forgiveness always entails a sacrifice. One's own liberation obligates one to give up oneself for the liberation of others. Jesus' death is an example of agape in the most radical sense.
Gerhard Lohfink, "Does God Need the Church?"
