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...Augustinian, issued a manifesto against the Council of Chalcedon. The church, he wrote, should "no longer speak of a union of the divine and human nature in one pre-existent person." One of the Dutch movement's two leading figures has been his Nijmegen colleague, Jesuit Piet Schoonenberg. In his 1969 book, published in English as The Christ (Herder & Herder; 1971), Schoonenberg also discarded the "two natures" approach, speaking instead of "God's complete presence in the human person Jesus Christ." Canadian Theologian Bernard J.F. Lonergan later said that Schoo-nenberg's book could lead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: New Debate over Jesus' Divinity | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

...error the theory that God was only "present in the highest degree in the human person Jesus," including the version in which Jesus is "God" in the sense that in "his human person God is supremely present." Though no names were mentioned, this was aimed primarily at Schoonenberg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: New Debate over Jesus' Divinity | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

...Father Smits compares Christ's giving himself to the gesture of a Dutch housewife who offers her guests tea and cookies. Just as the housewife offers not food itself but her welcome "incarnated" in the gift, Christ also offers himself, incarnated in the bread and wine. Adds Jesuit Schoonenberg: "I kneel not for a Christ who is supposed to be condensed in the host, but for the Lord who through the host offers me his reality, his body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: Beyond Transubstantiation: New Theory of the Real Presence | 7/2/1965 | See Source »

...Much Magic. What has driven Catholic thinkers to a new way of looking at the Real Presence is dissatisfaction with the medieval way of stating the doctrine. Dutch Jesuit Piet Schoonenberg argues that transubstantiation overemphasizes a magical change in the bread and wine while ignoring an essential element in the mystery: the faith of the Believing Church, in which the action takes place. Concentration on what happens to the bread itself, says Dutch Capuchin Luchesius Smits, leads to such distortions of piety as the little girl's fear that eating ice cream right after her first Communion would "make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: Beyond Transubstantiation: New Theory of the Real Presence | 7/2/1965 | See Source »

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