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Is Jesus relevant for today? If you think not, dont bother with this book. But if you think that Jesus might have something to say to todays world, which Jesus comes to mind? Is he gentle Jesus, meek and mild, offering individual salvation but with no message for a suffering world? Is he to be remembered as a Zealot fighting for a hopeless cause or as an outstanding rabbi? Was he a prophet in the long series of Israels prophets or a religious founder like Muhammad or Gautama? Or was Jesus unique, a man utterly consumed by zeal for the reign of God, by the fierce urgency of now, the leader of a movement dedicated to Gods cause but committed to nonviolence and living for others? If we seek him, can we find him in the churches? In No Irrelevant Jesus, Gerhard Lohfink, author of the acclaimed Jesus of Nazareth, explores these questions and offers a resounding yes to the relevance of Jesus today.
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Gerhard Lohfink is a superb scholar and a beautiful writer who helped many readers see the Son of God in an entirely new light with his brilliant book Jesus of Nazareth. Now, in a series of wise, provocative, and inspiring essays, backed by vast learning and deep prayer, Lohfink reveals Jesus as he was and is, and the church as it was and is meant to become.
James Martin, SJ
Author of Jesus: A Pilgrimage
No Irrelevant Jesus is a profound meditation on what Jesus means for the church and our world today. In probing metaphors of the church as a sacrament, as the eschatological Israel, Lohfink explores the churchs newness, its proper name as an assembly, how a sacrament works, and how faith works. He carefully parses for us how to pray as a way to get access to reality. Readers will not only be deeply enlightened but also feel a call for a genuine and deep conversion (as individuals and the church) against any taming of Jesus.
John A. Coleman, SJ
Associate Pastor
St. Ignatius Church
San Francisco, California
Following his highly successful Jesus of Nazareth, Gerhard Lohfink delivers another stunning achievement with this passionate set of essays about why Jesus remains relevant. Originally a series of public lectures, the chapters retain their oral flair, reflected in the excellent translation. They also impart a wealth of sophisticated information on a variety of themes tied to Jesus and his ministry: miracles, the love commandment, salvation, sin and reconciliation, the nature of the church, the episcopacy, and more. This book demonstrates once more Lohfinks eminent status as a seasoned scholar who nonetheless has the ability to communicate a meaningful pastoral message. In short, a superb book on Jesus significance for the church today!
Ronald D. Witherup, SS
Superior General of the Society of the Priests of Saint Sulpice and author of Saint Paul and the New Evangelization
Gerhard Lohfink is to theology what Flannery OConnor is to literature: a voice calling us to be aware of what really matters. OConnor shouts to a culture deaf to grace; Lohfink confronts anyone trying to tame and domesticate Jesus. Modern-day prophets they are.
Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus Robert F. Morneau
Diocese of Green Bay, Wisconsin
No Irrelevant Jesus by Gerhard Lohfink is an excellent complement to the authors Jesus of Nazareth. It highlights the mystery of Jesus Christ and his message in relation to the churchs nature and mission. Speaking to general readers as well as to scholars, it illumines the living Lords good news in its biblical setting and also in the context of our contemporary world. Its short, clear, down-to-earth essays challenge us to orient our lives and the church to the coming of Gods reign.
Robert A. Krieg
Professor of Theology
University of Notre Dame
Gerhard Lohfink not only demonstrates that Jesus and his church are unquestionably relevant for life today, his essays also offer readers clear and theologically wise responses to critical issues of our day. While his writing is solid and sophisticated, it is accessible to scholar and seeker alike. Brilliantly written and translated, this work should be on the reading list of everyone interested in updating their understanding of Jesus and his church with fresh and stimulating insights.
Stephen J. Binz, independent scholar, speaker,
and author of biblical theology and spirituality
A Michael Glazier Book published by Liturgical Press
Cover design by Ann Blattner. Illustration by Br. Martin Erspamer, OSB, a monk of Saint Meinrad Archabbey, Indiana. Used with permission.
This volume was originally published in German as Gegen Die Verharmlosung Jesu (Freiburg im Breisgau: Verlag Herder GmbH, 2013). This English-language edition has been slightly abridged, by permission of the author.
Scripture texts in this work are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
2014 by Order of Saint Benedict, Collegeville, Minnesota. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, microfilm, microfiche, mechanical recording, photocopying, translation, or by any other means, known or yet unknown, for any purpose except brief quotations in reviews, without the previous written permission of Liturgical Press, Saint Johns Abbey, PO Box 7500, Collegeville, Minnesota 56321-7500. Printed in the United States of America.
The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
Library of Congress Control Number: 2013955285
ISBN 978-0-8146-8264-7
ISBN 978-0-8146-8289-0 (ebook)
To the memory of
Rudolf Pesch
Jesus is being rendered irrelevant nowadays in many ways. It happens, for example, when Jesus is appraised as a somewhat unusual rabbi or a prophet, certainly one mighty in word and deed, but ultimately just one of the many prophets throughout history. It happens when posters in Augsburg invite people to journey through the ages and the religions: We will meet Rama, Krishna, Buddha, and Jesus, and sing their names. Circle dances from the Sufi tradition will help us to incorporate our bodies, too, into our meditation and to experience deep peace in the harmony of body and soul. That kind of peace was something Jesus definitely did not promise.
But resistance is called for above all when Christians act as if the church were a kind of club to serve religious needs. That too is part of the long series of ways of making Jesus irrelevant, because the eschatological people of God for which, in the end, he died, was something he conceived quite differently.
Therefore at many points this book is not only about Jesus himself but also about the church. Where else could we see who Jesus really was, if not in the life of the church and of Christians who dare to name themselves after him? The book is derived from talks I have given over the last several years. Originally they had no common theme, but in retrospect it appears that there is a fairly stout scarlet thread running through them: they all fall quite easily and without much alteration under the title of this book.
Public talks force the speaker not to be boring. Otherwise the audience will fall asleep, and next time they will stay home. Still more important is that they force one to get to the point quickly, because an hour is all one has, at the most. So it is not a problem to read a book made up of talks. For that reason I have deliberately retained the oral style and have not attempted to turn transparent talks into abstract disquisitions.
I dedicate this book in profound gratitude to my deceased colleague, Professor Dr. Dr. Rudolf Pesch, with whom I was able to work for many years in the Catholic Integrierte Gemeinde.
Bad Tlz, 6 January 2013
Gerhard Lohfink
First and primarily I want to thank my bishop, Dr. Franz-Peter Tebartzvan Elst, who invited me to give a lecture to the priests and deacons of the diocese of Limburg on the feast of the Holy Cross in 2012. On that day, the tenth of September, I chose the theme On Not Making Jesus Irrelevant. That lecture became the introductory chapter to this book and also gave it its title. The chapter Prayer as Access to Reality was also shaped in response to a gracious invitation from my bishop.
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