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To: ultima ratio
The fact is that Avery Dulles explicitly says that Kasper teaches the traditional view of miracles, resurrection, virgin birth. The isolated quotes that Harrison quotes Bredin making from Kasper's work do nothing to refute this fact:
In compact style, Kasper handles practically all the standard Christological questions, such as the pre-existence of the Son, the hypostatic union (one person in two natures), the virginal conception, the freedom and sinlessness of Jesus, his Messianic claims and titles, his miracles, and his resurrection. Refusing to separate Christology from soteriology, Kasper likewise treats the redemptive character of Jesus's sacrificial death. On all these points, Kasper stands with the ancient councils and with the mainstream of the theological tradition.

Kasper is opposed not only to the liberal Christologies of the nineteenth century but, even more emphatically, to the twentieth century secular and anthropological Christologies, which present Jesus as the culmination of the evolutionary process and as the supreme fulfillment of essential humanity. In Kasper's estimation, such theories (represented by Teilhard de Chardin, Karl Rahner, and Wolfhart Pannenberg, among others) inevitably tend to reduce Christ to a mere symbol of cosmic and human evolution. Particularly sharp are Kasper's criticisms of the Dutch Catholic theologian, Piet Schoonenberg, whom he accuses of falling into modalism and of directly contradicting the ancient councils by holding that Jesus is a human-not a divine-person.

The idea that rejecting the Resurrection constitutes "standing with the ancient councils" in Dulles' mind is simply ridiculous.

58 posted on 05/27/2004 7:44:57 PM PDT by gbcdoj (in mundo pressuram habetis, sed confidite, ego vici mundum)
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To: gbcdoj

The quotations are from Kasper's work in which he denies miracles happen. It's a stretch to think that Harrison quoted wrongly, but that a casual remark by Dulles in a book review should be taken more seriously. Harrison was refuting Kasper directly for his incredulity on miracles, the Resurrection in particular.


61 posted on 05/27/2004 7:56:46 PM PDT by ultima ratio
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