Jon Sobrino

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Jon Sobrino SJ (born December 27, 1938 in Barcelona ) is a Jesuit and a well-known representative of liberation theology . He lives in El Salvador .

Life

Sobrino comes from a Basque family, was born during the Spanish Civil War and grew up in Barcelona and Bilbao . In 1956 he joined the Jesuit Order and was sent to El Salvador in 1957 . 1960 to 1965 he studied civil engineering and philosophy at the Jesuit College in St. Louis (USA). He then briefly taught mathematics and philosophy in El Salvador until he was seconded by the order to study theology at the Sankt Georgen University of Applied Sciences in Frankfurt am Main . There he did his doctorate with the dogmatist Erhard Kunz SJ (see also: Analysis fidei ). He then returned to El Salvador. Since 1974 he has been professor of theology at the Catholic Central American University José Simeón Cañas in San Salvador , which he co-founded.

In 1989, he escaped an assassination attempt by accident that killed six of his confreres, including Ignacio Ellacuría , a domestic worker and her daughter.

On March 15, 2007, the Roman Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith published a “public notification”. It condemns “individual theses” of the Jesuit. Vatican Radio explained: "Some of Sobrino's theses can (...) harm the faithful through their errors and dangerousness". In his works 'there are great deficiencies, both methodologically and in terms of content'. According to Sobrino, 'the church of the poor' is the place where Christ is present. He forgot that only in the framework of the 'apostolic faith', which is passed on by the Church to all generations, can valid theology be practiced. 'These errors', according to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith,' lead to a disagreement with the faith of the church in critical points: the divinity of Jesus Christ, the incarnation of the Son of God, the relationship between Jesus and the kingdom of God, his sense of mission and the meaning of his salvation Death. '”For Sobrino, this notification has no direct effects (general withdrawal of teaching permits or publication prohibition), but enables individual bishops to withdraw Sobrino’s teaching permit in their area. The retired Tübingen theology professor Peter Hünermann declared in April 2007 that the Vatican notification was a “shock” for all theologians, because with Sobrino the “most respected exegetes and systematic theologians - Catholic and Protestant - were in the dock”.

Sobrino made significant and fundamental contributions to Christology within liberation theology . Together with Ignacio Ellacuría, he published Mysterium Liberationis, one of the standard works on liberation theology.

For his services to the theology of liberation and his commitment to justice, he has received numerous awards and honorary doctorates, including the human rights award from the Karl-Franzens University of Graz (1992) and an honorary doctorate from the University of Münster (1998).

Jon Sobrino is one of the editors of the international theological journal Concilium .

Works

  • Resurrección de la verdadera Iglesia. Los pobres, lugar teológico de la eclesiología (Presencia Teológica 8), Santander: Sal Terrae 1984
  • Jesús en América Latina. Su significado para la fe y la cristología (Presencia Teológica 12), Santander: Sal Terrae 1985
  • Liberación con espíritu. Apuntes para una nueva espiritualidad (Presencia Teológica 23), Santander: Sal Terrae 1985 (German: Spirit that liberates: the impetus for a new spirituality. 1989 ISBN 3-451-21091-6 )
  • Compañeros de Jesús. El asesinato-martirio de los jesuitas salvadoreños. (Aqui y Ahora 4), Santander: Sal Terrae 1989
  • Whoever touches idols must die: the testimony of the murdered Jesuits in San Salvador: facts and considerations. Friborg / Brig: Ed. Exodus 1990 ISBN 3-905575-04-3
  • The winds that blew in Santo Domingo and the evangelization of culture, in: Franciscan Mission Center (ed.): Santo Domingo 1992. IV. General Assembly of the Latin American Bishops' Conferences. Becoming - course - evaluation (reports, documents, comments 55), Bonn: Missionszentrale der Franziskaner 1993, 32-50
  • Liberation theology as intellectus amoris. Conversation between Martin Maier SJ and Jon Sobrino SJ, San Salvador, in: Missionswissenschaftliches Institut Missio eV (ed.): Yearbook for contextual theologies, Frankfurt / Main: IKO 2 (1994) 11-40
  • with Ignacio Ellacuría (ed.): Mysterium Liberationis. Basic concepts of the theology of liberation , 2 vol., Lucerne: Exodus 1995/1996 ISBN 3-905575-98-1 u. ISBN 3-905575-99-X
  • Qué queda de la Teología de la Liberación ?, in: Exodo 38 (1997) 48-53 (also in: RELaT 182) (1997)
  • La Iglesia samaritana y el Principio-Misericordia, in: RELaT 192
  • Christology of Liberation. Vol. 1, Mainz: Matthias-Grünewald 1998 ISBN 3-7867-2130-0
  • The price of justice. Letters to a murdered friend , Würzburg: Echter, 2007.
  • Faith in Jesus Christ (= vol. 2 of the Christology of Liberation), Ostfildern: Grünewald 2008.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wilfried Köpke : Martyrdom and Incarnation. An interview with Jon Sobrino, in: Geist und Leben, Würzburg 63 (1990) 123-129
  2. ^ Vatican Radio : Condemnation of theses, not of Sobrino ( Memento of March 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) , accessed on April 20, 2010
  3. ↑ Holy See : Original text of the notification , accessed on September 17, 2012
  4. ↑ Peter Hünermann : Modern quality assurance? The Jon Sobrino case is an inquiry to the work of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. in: Herder-Korrespondenz 61 (2007) 4, pp. 184-188.
  5. ↑ Bruno Kern: Theologie der Befreiung , Verlag A. Francke, Tübingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8252-4027-1 , p. 128
personal data
SURNAME Sobrino, Jon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Salvadoran philosopher and liberation theologian
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Bilbao