Ekumeniczna lektura chrystologii Dietricha Bonhoeffera

Abstract

Christology is a methodical reflection on the event of Jesus Christ revealed in the Bible. Is it possible to accept the Christological reflections of an Evangelical theologian in the Catholic Christology? In our ecumenical lecture on D. Bonhoeffer’s Christology, the category of solidarity will be helpful. Pope John Paul II wrote about it in the encyclical Sollicitudo rei socialis. According to John Paul II, the virtue of solidarity is “a commitment to the good of one’s neighbor with the readiness, in the gospel sense, to ‘lose oneself’ for the sake of the other instead of exploiting him, and to ‘serve him’ instead of oppressing him for one’s own advantage”. Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s dogmatics shows ecumenical consonance, i.e., the faith confessed by both Evangelicals and Catholics in the mystery of the Incarnation. This ecumenical consonance also refers to the idea of the Church as the Body of Christ and eschatology as the temple, and even a connection of sacraments with the Word of God. Still, there is no passing over the ecumenical problems that still divide Evangelicals and Catholics. These ecumenical problems involve some issues within the realms of ecclesiology and sacramentology. A basis for ecumenical dialogue about issues that still divide Evangelicals and Catholics may be Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s ecumenical Christology of solidarity which he summarized thus: „The human being was created as a body, in the body – because of us – ‘the Son of God appeared on earth’, in the body He rose again, in the body the believer takes Christ the Lord in the sacrament, and the Resurrection of the dead will bring about full spiritual-physical community among God’s creatures. The Solidarity of Christ continues for the entire history of salvation: from creation through incarnation, reconciliation, and the Church, up to the eschaton.