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Christ the Liberator: a View from the Victims.

Publication: Theological Studies
Publication Date: 01-DEC-02 		Format: Online - approximately 824 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Christ the Liberator: a View from the Victims.(Book Review)

Article Excerpt
By Jon Sobrino. Translated from the Spanish by Paul Burns. Maryknoll: Orbis, 2001. Pp. vii + 376. $28.

Christ the Liberator is the companion to Sobrino's Jesus the Liberator (1993). The latter concentrates on the life, mission, and death of Jesus. The former reflects on the Church's dogmatic tradition that reaches a summit with Chalcedon. Like many contemporary Christologies, it begins "from below." For S., however, this not only means presupposing the content of the first volume, but adopting a specific method that interrogates faith in Jesus Christ from the perspective of history's victims, the marginalized two-thirds of humanity that includes the "crucified people" of El Salvador. "The view of the victims helps us to read christological texts and to know Jesus Christ...

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