Date of Award

4-1966

Degree Type

Master's Essay - Restricted

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

Theology

Abstract

Christ became man, not merely in the sense of a "human being", but man in the existential condition of the children of Adam. Becoming man, God the Son entered into a humanity that had made its history one of condemnation, and that was branded with the sign of disobedience and alienation from God: death. Although personally sinless, the earthly Christ lived in a situation of "estrangement from God", not so much personally on his own account, but rather because, as our representative, he personally took the place of sinful mankind before the Father. In his earthly life Jesus, as representative of sinful mankind, did truly go forth from the Father in a qualitative sense, so that he could pray: "Out of the depths of the miserable state of mankind, I call upon you, my God." This cry comes above all from the cross .

Comments

Master Essay, Graduate Theology, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Download

Share

COinS