“The ideal person cannot be thought of as the whole person developed from the possibilities of the present-day person, but as the "new man" who, to become such, has to pass through the critique and negation of the present-day person.”

—  Jon Sobrino

Source: Jesus the Liberator (1991), p. 117

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