Who God is, who we are: an introduction to Eberhard Jungel (II).

The Christian Century | December 13, 1995| | Copyright

WE SHOULD BE human and not God. That is the summa." So Luther in a famous letter to Spalatin in 1530. The aphorism is a favorite of Eberhard Jungel's, pointing to the heart of his understanding of the gospel. "In the last analysis," he writes, "the revelation of God which it is the concern of Christian theology to understand means just this: for the good of humanity God himself intends the proper distinction between himself and humanity." Behind Jungel's critical reading of modem intellectual and political culture, and behind his own presentation of Christian faith, lies a ...

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