Jon Sobrino: Difference between revisions

| birth_place = [[Barcelona]], [[Second Spanish Republic|Spain]]

| school_tradition = [[LiberationLatin American liberation theology]]

| influences = {{hlist | [[Ignacio Ellacuría]] | [[Karl Marx]]<ref>{{cite thesis |last=Erichsen |first=Ola Bakken |year=2013 |title=Jon Sobrinos korsteologiske konstruksjon : Hvordan og hvorfor konstruerer Jon Sobrino sin korsteologi? |degree=master's |language=no |location=Oslo, Norway |publisher=University of Oslo |page=13 |hdl=10852/37106 |hdl-access=free}}</ref> | [[Jürgen Moltmann]] | [[Wolfhart Pannenberg]] | [[Karl Rahner]]}}

| workplaces = [[Central American University (San Salvador)|Central American University]]

'''Jon Sobrino''' {{post-nominals|post-noms=[[Society of Jesus|SJ]]}} (born 27 December 1938) is a Spanish [[Jesuit]] [[Catholic priest]] priest and [[theology|theologian]], known mostly for his contributions to [[Latin American liberation theology]]. He received worldwide attention in 2007 when the Vatican's [[Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith]] issued a [[notification (Holy See)|notification]] for what they termed doctrines that are "erroneous or dangerous and may cause harm to the faithful."

On 16 November 1989 he narrowly escaped the [[Murder of UCA scholars|murder of the UCA scholars]] by the Atlacatl Battalion, an elite unit of the Salvadoran Army. By a coincidence, he was away from El Salvador when members of the military broke into the rectory at the UCA and brutally murdered his six fellow Jesuits, [[Ignacio Ellacuría]], [[Segundo Montes]], Juan Ramón Moreno, [[Ignacio Martín-Baró]], Amando López, and Joaquín López y López, andas well as their housekeeper Elba Ramos and her 16-year-old daughter Celina Ramos. The Jesuits were targeted for their outspoken work to bring a resolution to the brutal [[El Salvador Civil War]] that left about 75,000 men, women, and children dead, mostly civilians.

Investigated by the Vatican throughout his career as a professor of theology, he has remained an outspoken proponent of peace, joining protests in 2008 of the continued training of Latin American military officers in torture techniques at the [[School of the Americas]] at [[Fort Benning]].<ref name=":0">{{cite web | author = John Dear | url=http://ncronline.org/blogs/road-peace/jon-sobrino-soa-protest | title =With Jon Sobrino at the SOA Protest | work =NCROnline | accessdateaccess-date =25 November 2008}}</ref>

At the root of what the Vatican saw as Sobrino's error is his affirmation that "the '[[Church of the poor]]' is the ecclesial 'setting' of Christology and offers it its fundamental orientation." However, the Vatican believes that it is "only the [[apostolic faith]] which the Church has transmitted through all generations that constitutes the ecclesial setting of Christology and of theology in general."<ref name=":1" />

Retired professor of theology [[Peter Hünermann]] (then [[Tübingen]], [[Germany]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://fsspx.news/en/news-events/news/liberation-theologian-barred-teaching-and-publishing-21575|title=Liberation Theologian Barred from Teaching and Publishings|website=fsspx.news|language=en|access-date=16 December 2017}}</ref> declared in April 2007 that the Vatican notification was a "shock" for all theologians, because along with Sobrino "the most distinguished exegetes and systematic theologians&nbsp;– both Catholic and Protestant&nbsp;– stood in the dock".<ref>{{cite journal |first=Peter |last=Hünermann |url=http://www.khg-oldenburg.de/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=32&Itemid=42 |title=Moderne Qualitätssicherung? Der Fall Jon Sobrino ist eine Anfrage an die Arbeit der Glaubenskongregation |journal=Herder-Korrespondenz |volume=61 |date=2007 |issue=4 |pages=184-188184–188 |language=German }}</ref> Supported by more than 100 professors of Catholic theology, Hünermann also demanded an "intelligent redevelopment" of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, because, as successor organization of the Holy Office, it still had the structure of an "early modern board of censors".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://cathnews.com/cathnews/12982-theologians-back-call-for-cdf-quotrestructuring-quot|title=Theologians Back Call for CDF "Restructuring"|website=cathnews.com|language=en-gb|access-date=16 December 2017}}</ref>

Sobrino's work was reviewed by a number of theologians, including {{ill|Bernard Sesboüé|fr}}, {{ill|José Ignacio González Faus|es}}, [[Javier Vitoria]], Carlo Palacio of [[Belo Horizonte]], and Martin Maier, editor of the German Jesuit periodical ''[[Stimmen der Zeit]]''. These theologians found no doctrinal errors in Sobrino's works. It is not apparent that their findings have been considered by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.<ref name="Pope 2015 p. 237">{{cite book | last=Pope | first=Stephen J. | title=Hope and Solidarity: Jon Sobrino's Challenge to Christian Theology | publisher=Orbis Books | year=2015 | isbn=978-1-60833-276-2 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0CnOBgAAQBAJ&pg=PT237 | page=237}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Allen |first=John L., Jr. |title=Vatican Censures Sobrino, Who Calls Procedures 'Not Honest' | work=National Catholic Reporter | date=14 March 2007 | url=https://www.ncronline.org/news/vatican-censures-sobrino-who-calls-procedures-not-honest}}</ref>

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