Are not al religions equally close to and equally far from God?
Why, then, the Church? Gerhard Lohfink poses these questions with
scholarly reliability and on the basis of his own experience of
community in "Does God Need the Church?"
In 1982 Father Lohfink wrote "Wie hat Jesus Gemeinde gewollt?"
(translated into English as"Jesus and Community") to show, on the
basis of the New Testament, that faith is founded in a community
that distinguishes itself in clear contours from the rest of
society. In that book he also described a sequence of events that
moved directly from commonality to a community that was readily
accessible to every group of people and was made legitimate by
Jesus himself. Only later did Father Lohfink learn, within a new
horizon of experience, that such a description is not the way to
community. The story of the gathering of the people of God, from
Abraham until today, never took place according to such a
model.
Today Father Lohfink states that he would not write "Wie hat
Jesus Gemeinde gewollt?" the same way. The situation of belief and
believers has undergone a shift: the question of the Church has
become much more urgent. Church life is declining and the religions
are returning, often in new guises.
In light of these shifts and the change in his own view of
community, Father Lohfink inquires in "Does God Need the Church?"
of Israel's theology, Jesus' praxis, the experiences of the early
Christian communities, and of what is appearing in the Church
today. These inquiries lead to an amazing history involving God and
the world - a history that God presses forward with the aid of a
single people and that always turns out differently from what they
think and plan.
"Gerhard Lohfink, ThD, was professor of New Testament exegesis
at the University of Tubingen until 1986 when he resigned from his
professorship in order to live and work as a theologian in the
Catholic Integrierte Gemeinde and its community of priests."
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