Top 2 Quotes & Sayings by Edward Schillebeeckx

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Belgian theologian Edward Schillebeeckx.

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Edward Cornelis Florentius Alfonsus Schillebeeckx (1914–2009) was a Belgian Catholic theologian born in Antwerp. He taught at the Catholic University in Nijmegen. He was a member of the Dominican Order. His books on theology have been translated into many languages, and his contributions to the Second Vatican Council made him known throughout the world.

Belgian - Theologian | November 12, 1914 - December 23, 2009

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The crucified but risen Jesus appears in the believing, assembled community of the church. That this sense of the risen, living Jesus has faded in many [churches] can be basically blamed on the fact that our churches are insufficiently 'communities' of God. Where the church of Jesus Christ lives, and lives a liberating life in the footsteps of Jesus, the resurrection faith undergoes no crisis. On the other hand, it is better not to believe in God than to believe in a God who minimizes human beings, holds them under and oppresses them, with a view to a better world to come.