1. Roger Haight, S.J.Jesus Symbol of God(Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1999); Roger Haight, S.J.The Future of Christology(New York and London: Continuum, 2005), p. 7.
2. Modern TheologyVol. 16 no. 4 (October, 2000), pp. 555-556.
3. Summa Theologiae3a. 26. Vatican II's efforts to re-think Marian mediation as a subordinate sharing in Christ's unique mediation belongs in this tradition. SeeLumen Gentium, paragraphs 60-65 in Norman Tanner, ed.Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils, Volume Two (London: Sheed and Ward and Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1990), pp. 895-897.
4. For the two very different sorts of mediating theologies in this paragraph, see R. Baumer, "Vermittlungstheologie",Lexicon fur Theologie und Kirche, Josef Hoffer and Karl Rahner, eds., Vol. 10, Second Edition, (Freiburg: Herder, 1965), p. 721; Heribert Smolinsky and Georg Pfleidere, "Vermittlungstheologie",Lexicon fur Theologie und Kirche, Michael Buchberger and Walter Kasper, eds., Vol. 10, Third Edition, (Freiburg: Herder, 1993-2001), p. 697.
5. For "mediation" as a (resolved) crux of Christian ecumenical conversation, see Robert W. Jenson,Unbaptized God: The Basic Flaw in Ecumenical Theology(Minneapolis: MN: Fortress Press, 1992), chapter 7, "The Church's Mediation".