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Raymund Schwager (1935–2004) was a Swiss Roman Catholic priest and theologian, and member of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits).

This article explores and develops Raymund Schwager's understanding of the nature of justice and mercy, especially in the face of the.

This article explores and develops Raymund Schwager's understanding of the nature of justice and mercy, especially in the face of the.

His life and death, his teaching and example, reveal God truly and fully, even if the full weight of this revelation is never completely appreciated at any.

He is well aware, of course, of the importance of setting good examples in our actions but his concept of mimetic desire takes us much deeper.

This article shows that and how Raymund Schwager's five-act dramatic Christology is at the same time a theology of divine action.

The first of the seven stories bears the title Oppression to Justice and deals with the Hebrews as Hapiru – a class of dispossessed people from.

Life

Schwager was born on 11 November 1935 in Balterswil into a Swiss farming family as the second of seven children. After primary and secondary school he joined the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) in 1955.

Following Jesuit custom, he studied philosophy (1957–1960 in Pullach near Munich, Germany) and theology (1963–1967 in Lyon-Fourvière, France), separated by educational work as a prefect in a Jesuit boarding school (1960–1963, "Stella Matutina" in Feldkrich, Austria).

Schwager was ordained a priest on 31 July 1966 and completed his formal education with a doctorate in theology (1967–1969 in Fribourg, Switzerland). During those years he also spent some time in Spain, the home country of the Jesuits' Basque founder, Ignatius of Loyola, on whom he wrote his thesis.

For seven years (1970–1977) Schwager was a member of the editors o