El artículo profundiza bíblico-teológicamente la interpretación hinkelammertiana de algunos paradigmas bíblicos que abordan la relación de la persona con la ley (tradición abrahámica, mosaica pre-exílica y mosaica post-exílica), con el objeto de reivindicar la centralidad de la persona como el lugar verdadera y auténticamente humano desde el cual discernir todo tipo de ley y hacerla reflexiva frente a la vida humana.

The following notes seek to give a thematic stimulus to the identity own perspective of historical Protestantism and the positioning of this tradition before an interfaith dialogue, as just a chance to meet with ourselves, with our protests, our flights and struggles. This will lead us to the obvious question about the situation of contemporary Protestantism and the continuity / discontinuity between the original Protestant project and spirit and the complex reality of the “really existing” Protestantisms. At first a historical-typological approach to Latin American Protestantism is proposed, in order to define a common reference framework, and an understanding of the Protestant identity from the so-called “Protestant principle” is offered; in a second stage a historic evangelical perspective on dialogue and relations of historic Protestantism with believers of other religions is presented. 

Con el teólogo Hans Küng se tiene la certeza de ir a una lectura segura, a un producto de reflexión madura que nunca defrauda. Y esto es lo que acontece con su texto “Jesús”, publicado por la Editorial Trotta en 2014, aunque el original apareciera en lengua alemana en el 2012 (München / Zürich: Editorial Piper). En siete capítulos Küng busca acercar al lector al personaje Jesús: a ese “desconocido Jesús terreno”. El punto de partida para comprender y experimentar a este hombre, que entiende el autor como un acercamiento verdaderamente situado, no es el ser divinizado y dogmatizado presente en las afirmaciones de fe de la Iglesia, sino el sujeto de la historia. Se trata de la vieja discusión metodológica y material-formal entre las llamadas cristologías descendentes y ascendentes, que es revitalizada aquí por el autor, en una radical opción por esta última, por una Jesuología desde abajo, en la medida en que, para Küng, el cristianismo no nace de una idea o un dogma, sino de la experiencia concreta y kerigmática de la vida, el mensaje, las acciones, la muerte y la resurrección de Jesús: “la esencia del cristianismo no es un contenido dogmático abstracto o una doctrina general sino, desde siempre, una figura histórica viviente, Jesús de Nazaret” (p. 10).

In the context of a Christianity affected by the anthropological turn and the rethinking of the question by the human being and his being/be in the world in the perspective of humanization-dehumanization of existence, the logic of social justice-injustice and the Faith paradox facing the pain and human misery makes sense to ask about the experience of faith in the Lord crucified-risen-resuscitated. The theology of the cross –staurology inside the systematic theology–, which is part of a critical theological tradition criticism and also, humanizing and hopeful, is an essential point to face questions and paradoxes of latemodern Western Christianity. The cross evokes provocation, insanity, paradox, suffering, curse, anxiety, anamnetic memory; but also hope and criterion of discernment of God's answer to the human condition. It symbolizes the ridicule and torture of Christ, the depth of suffering of those who in the eyes of Romans and Jews died as a rejected, cursed by God and blasphemous. It condenses the image of that triumphant and victorious Christianity, which in the imagination of the great German poet Friedrich von Schiller is displayed as "religion of the cross", motif of thrones and empires that often in the Middle Ages caused the rejection and death. But the very symbol of the cross, the sign of the cross and the crucifix also symbolize faith and worship of marginalized and clandestine Christian communities, the praying look and attitude, the Christian piety and the hope of salvation beyond the pain and human finitude.