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Work #864 · Late

Jesus the Liberator

Jon Sobrino
1991 (Spanish Jesucristo liberador); 1993 (English) · Spanish
Liberation Christology · Late-twentieth-century Latin American liberation theology

Sobrino's 1991 liberation Christology — the historical Jesus from the perspective of the poor

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Attribute Jesus the Liberator (Late)
Time · Extent Infinite
Time · Ontological Status Substantival
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Non-Deterministic
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Infinite
Space · Ontological Status Substantival
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Infinite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Single
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Partial
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Total
Observer · Physicality Embodied
Observer · Agency Both
Observer · Number Plural
Observer · Metaphysical Agency Theistic
Observer · Moral Authority Scripture
Observer · Theological Method
Energy · Extent Infinite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Irreversible
Information · Ontological Status Substantival
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity Continuous

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.

Time

Jesus the Liberator

The historical time of Jesus and the contemporary suffering of El Salvador.

Space

Jesus the Liberator

Galilean ministry and Latin American base communities.

Matter

Jesus the Liberator

The embodied historical Jesus and the embodied poor.

Observer

Jesus the Liberator

The Christologist reading from the perspective of the poor.

Energy

Jesus the Liberator

Energies of liberation.

Information

Jesus the Liberator

The historical-Jesus tradition reread in liberation perspective.

Internal Tensions

Where each work's argument pulls against itself.

Jesus the Liberator

Sobrino's Jesus the Liberator: foundational for late-twentieth-century liberation Christology; subject of CDF Notification (2006).