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Karl Rahner SJ (5 March 1904 – 30 March 1984) was a German Jesuit priest and theologian who, alongside Henri de Lubac, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and Yves Congar, is considered to be one of the most influential Catholic theologians of the 20th century.
Mar 30, 2022 · Karl Rahner (1904-1984) was one of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century. His work, alongside other important theologians like Hans Urs von Balthasar, helped to overcome the dusty sentences of Neo-Scholasticism and usher in a great flowering of theology.
Karl Rahner (born March 5, 1904, Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden, Ger.—died March 30, 1984, Innsbruck, Austria) was a German Jesuit priest who is widely considered to have been one of the foremost Roman Catholic theologians of the 20th century.
Therefore, all truly human activity is a free, positive or negative, response to God’s offer of self—the grace at the heart of human existence.2 Because God offers nothing less than God’s very own self to everyone, the human person is, to Rahner’s way of thinking, homo mysticus, mystical man.
For Rahner, theology implies a philosophical anthropology, and human existence implies the experience of God. It is this insight that best alerts us to his primary concern. However, before continuing with his theological program, let us turn now to a sketch of his life. 1. Background. Early Years.
A member of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) and a Roman Catholic priest, Rahner, as was the custom of the time, studied scholastic philosophy, through which he discovered Thomas Aquinas. From Aquinas’ epistemology and philosophical psychology Rahner was introduced to the Aristotelian-Thomistic notion of abstraction.
Jan 1, 2007 · In God in the World: A Guide to Karl Rahner's Theology, Thomas O'Meara looks anew at Rahner's insights and theological principles. Through O'Meara's clear and engaging style, readers will discover—or rediscover, as the case may be—how invaluable Rahner is for the church today.
