Abstract (eng)
Jesus Christ, the "Son par excellence" - Basic features of Israel-perspectivised Christology and Ecclesiology in Aron Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger This work deals with the theologically perspectivised Christology of Israel and its ecclesiological consequences in Aron Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger. Lustiger uses the hermeneutical concept of corporate personality to illustrate the bond between Jesus Christ and the people of Israel and the Church. In this way, the one history of salvation, which began with the election of the people of Israel and culminated in Christ, and therefore the continuity and unity of God's revelation, become visible. This thesis is deepened on the basis of three Christological aspects, namely the sonship of Jesus Christ, his Messiahship and Christ as the "unifying principle". As the Son of God and the Son of David, Jesus Christ is the "Son par excellence". Through the incarnation of the Son of the Father as the Jew Jesus of Nazareth, the election of Israel to sonship and the salvation of the world is realised in him to gather lost humanity from the Father and bring it back to the Father. Christianity can therefore not be understood without Judaism. As the Messiah for Israel, Christ fulfils the promises made to the people of Israel and makes them accessible to all people through his work of redemption. As the suffering Messiah, he also bears the suffering of his people and realises their messianic mission to bring reconciliation and salvation to the world. Therefore Christ is also the "reason for the eschatologically hoped-for unity of the people of God". Due to this Christological finding, the ecclesiological consequences are presented based on three topics. Firstly, the significance of the ecclesia ex circumcisione and its institutional restoration in the church is discussed, as the church is only truly catholic as an assembly of Jews and Gentiles and thus makes the eschatologically renewed people of God visible. Secondly, the relationship between the Old and New Covenants is considered. Due to God's faithfulness and according to revelation, the Old Covenant is not obsolete, but is fulfilled in the New Covenant through Christ. This means, on the one hand, that the people of Israel and the Church form a brotherly, messianic companionship that is orientated towards the parousia of the Messiah of Israel and, on the other hand, that anti-Judaism and anti-Semitism contradict Christianity itself.