ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates a theological anthropology which will establish Jesus as normative for all human experience. It examines how the theologian, Dorothee Sölle, working in second half of the twentieth century, expounded a theory of Christ as representative. For the Christian the life, and death and resurrection of Jesus are constitutive of what it means to live, to die and to be raised by God. In the Old Testament, nephesh is a way of describing living being, and one of its most common uses is reflexive. Karl Rainier sees the resurrection of the body and immortality of the soul as parallel statements arising from different ways of speaking of human. For the dying, descent of Jesus to the dead on Holy Saturday has two implications: that death is not alien to God and that where people go alone Jesus himself has gone alone; and that even in their death and beyond they dying the cross of Christ has redemptive power.
