Edward Schillebeeckx Quotes

Belgium, Theologian
November 12, 1914 – December, 23, 2009.

Edward Cornelis Florentius Alfonsus Schillebeeckx was a Belgian Roman Catholic theologian born in Antwerp. He taught at the Catholic University in Nijmegen.

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.

Edward Schillebeeckx
- God
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- Jesus
Christianity is not a message which has to be believed, but an experience of faith that becomes a message.

Edward Schillebeeckx