Karl Rahner 1904 – 1984
Karl Rahner (1904 – 1984) was a German philosopher of the Contemporary era, associated with Christian Philosophy and Continental Philosophy.
Karl Rahner was a German Jesuit theologian and philosopher and one of the most influential Catholic thinkers of the twentieth century. Trained in scholastic theology and in Heideggerian philosophy at Freiburg, he developed in his early philosophical works Spirit in the World and Hearer of the Word a transcendental Thomist philosophy in which the human being is the horizon-questioning openness to absolute being. His Foundations of Christian Faith offered a synthetic statement of Christian doctrine on transcendental-anthropological foundations, and his many essays in the Theological Investigations shaped the work of the Second Vatican Council and much of postconciliar Catholic thought.
Key facts
- Nationality
- German
- Era
- Contemporary
- Movements
- Christian Philosophy, Continental Philosophy
Selected quotes
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“The Christian of the future will be a mystic, or will not exist at all.”
Christian Living Formerly and Today", Theological Investigations , Vol. 7, trans. David Bourke (New York: Herder and Herder, 1971), p. 15. -
Attributed to Karl Rahner:
“Every human being is at every moment confronted with the absolute mystery we call God.”
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Attributed to Karl Rahner:
“Grace is not added from above; it is the deepest inwardness of human nature.”
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Attributed to Karl Rahner:
“Theology is the patient articulation of the inarticulable.”
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Attributed to Karl Rahner:
“The anonymous Christian is the human being who responds to grace without naming it.”
Karl Rahner by topic
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- Karl Rahner was born in 1904 and died in 1984.
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- Karl Rahner was a German philosopher of the Contemporary era.
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- Karl Rahner was associated with Christian Philosophy and Continental Philosophy.
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- Karl Rahner was a German Jesuit theologian and philosopher and one of the most influential Catholic thinkers of the twentieth century.
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