THE FULFILLMENT OF MAN IN CHRIST ACCORDING TO WALTER KASPER

Abstract

Kasper presents Jesus Christ as the new possibility and actual example of being human, as the determination and fulfilment of humanity. Kasper does this without detriment to the uniqueness of Jesus. Jesus is not only a human being in whom all the human potentialities and capacities are seen in its perfection, but also he is the unique mediator between God and man and in whom God has made his specific form, plenitude and perfection. Thus we can say that Kasper has succeeded in presenting the fact that in Jesus Christ alone the hopes of mankind have been fulfilled in a unique and unsurpassable way.