Karl Rahner Quotes
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. The quotes below are attributed to Karl Rahner, organized by topic.
Karl Rahner on God
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Attributed to Karl Rahner:
“The Christian of the future will be a mystic, or will not exist at all.”
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“Every human being is at every moment confronted with the absolute mystery we call God.”
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“Grace is not added from above; it is the deepest inwardness of human nature.”
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“Theology is the patient articulation of the inarticulable.”
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“The anonymous Christian is the human being who responds to grace without naming it.”