Christological Event and Dramatic Identity

The Theological Reflection of F.G. Brambilla

Abstract

The paper presents the theological profile of Franco Giulio Brambilla starting from the episcopal motto Loquamur Dominum Iesum, assuming the Gospel story as the fundamental place in which the Christological event presents itself and configures the narrative identity of Jesus, crucified and risen. On this basis, theological anthropology is reread as “dramatics” of freedom: believing conscience, structurally relational and duly ad imaginem, being formed in time through the relation with alterity and the gift of  grace. From these, ecclesial form and believing action are derived (the Liber Pastoralis, the weaving of ministry/ witness, the attention to what is human in the line of Vatican II) and some styles of Christian life: vocation as figure of witness, the lay person as witness,
family and parish as the generative places of faith, and the existential icon of
don Luigi Serenthà.