Word: sons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...summit meeting with Küng was held a year ago in Stuttgart. Three months later, Joseph Cardinal Hoffner, chairman of the bishops' conference, wrote a letter accusing Küng of evading a binding creed, and demanding in exasperation: "Is Jesus Christ the preexisting, eternal Son of God, one in being with the Father?" Because Küng continued to provide no flat answer, the hierarchy last November issued a formal warning that the book created a "distressing insecurity of faith" and charged that Küng had failed to explain how his Christology could be reconciled with...
...prove that Küng is the victim of an unfair inquisition. In a concluding proclamation, Küng states that he accepts the Chalcedon formula but that interpretations of it must follow the view of many modern scholars that Jesus did not proclaim himself as the eternal Son of God, nor did the early Christians. What is more, Küng argues, the ancient dogmas were flawed because they relied upon Greek concepts of man and nature that are now outdated...
...really God at all. In the U.S., Southern Baptist Theologian Robert S. Alley, religion chairman at the University of Richmond, was abruptly switched to another department after he told a meeting of atheists that "Jesus never really claimed to be God, nor to be related to him as son." Next month the board will debate a faculty demand that Alley be reinstated...
...Guerrero, director of catechetics at Madrid's Pastoral Institute and author of the 1976 book El Otro Jésus (The Other Jesus), told TIME that Jesus is "a man elected and sent by God, and has been constituted by God as the Son of God." At the Jesuit theological school in Barcelona, José Ignacio Gonzáles Faus insists that during his earthly life, Jesus was not aware of being God, and displayed such human traits as doubt and ignorance. Similar points are made by a German-trained Basque, Jon Sobrino, who has written the most thorough...
More broadly, Sobrino espouses an evolutionary view of Jesus' sonship. Instead of saying that Jesus is the Son of God, Sobrino writes that he "gradually fashioned himself into the Son of God, became the Son of God." As the Son, Jesus "reveals the way to the Father, not the Father himself," through his example of obedience to God's mission. Sobrino admits that Jesus' "becoming" God sounds like the old heresy of Adoptionism, but he still insists that his Christology "is in accord with the dogmatic formulas...