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George Soares-Prabhu Quotes

1929–1995 India

George M. Soares-Prabhu (1929-11-17 - 1995-07-22) is a well-known Biblical scholar, exegete, liberation theologian and Jesuit priest from India.

India
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Also known as: Soares-Prabhu, George

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“The Eucharist has always carried the memory of Jesus’ meals with tax collectors and sinners.”

“Jesus opted for a radicalism which sought to realize as perfectly as possible, the spirit of the Law, which he saw embodied in love (agape), that is in interhuman concern.”

“An Indian reading of the Bible is a reading from an Indian point of view: a reading guided by a sensibility shaped by Indian culture, and provoked by questions emerging from the Indian situation.”

“Jesus appears in the Gospels as non-clerical, even as a somewhat anti-clerical figure. He is not a priest, for he does not belong to a priestly family; and he is shown in continuing conflict with the priestly establishment which ultimately arranges for his death.”

“In places like India Jesus brings something radically new. A new experience of God, which allows him to rename Yhwh as ABBA. God is experienced not so much as 'holy' but as gracious and compassionate; and people are not just members of an exclusive tribe or a separated 'clean' caste, but as members of an open family, marked by freedom from consumerism and an attitude of radical service.”

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: George Soares-Prabhu (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.