{"title":"The Spirit Speaks to the Churches","authors":"P. Mullins","doi":"10.2143/LS.29.3.583145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/LS.29.3.583145","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41540,"journal":{"name":"Louvain Studies","volume":"29 1","pages":"288-319"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2004-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2143/LS.29.3.583145","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68119692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
— Rahner’s idea of the “anonymous Christian” is the best known, most controversial and most often misunderstood aspect of his theology. It is important to re-visit the idea because it is not an “optional extra” in his work but rather represents the entire dynamic of his thought. The idea of the “anonymous Christian” is located in two contexts: wider theological discourse, and Rahner’s own theology of grace. In response to criticism that the idea relativises and erodes the significance of the historical Christ event it is argued that Rahner re-locates, rather than relativises the incarnation and cross within the totality of God’s plan of salvation. Accusations that the idea of the “anonymous Christian” adversely affected the Church’s missionary activity, and that the terminology is inappropriate, are also considered. While it is accepted that the terminology is best jettisoned, it is argued that the substance of the idea is found in the teaching of the Second Vatican Council, teaching Rahner himself influenced. It is argued that Rahner’s unpacking of the absolute nature of God’s salvific will serves as an important corrective both to contemporary Church documents and to theologies, which, in an effort to underscore the uniqueness and indispensable nature of the Church’s role in God’s plan of salvation, tend to underplay the presence of divine grace in other religions and in the lives of nonChristians. At the same time, Rahner’s idea is a challenge to a culture marked by indifference, a position which according to Rahner’s theology, cannot be considered salvific.
{"title":"So as not to despise God's grace: re-assessing Rahner's idea of the \"anonymous Christian\"","authors":"Eamonn Conway","doi":"10.2143/LS.29.1.505250","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/LS.29.1.505250","url":null,"abstract":"— Rahner’s idea of the “anonymous Christian” is the best known, most controversial and most often misunderstood aspect of his theology. It is important to re-visit the idea because it is not an “optional extra” in his work but rather represents the entire dynamic of his thought. The idea of the “anonymous Christian” is located in two contexts: wider theological discourse, and Rahner’s own theology of grace. In response to criticism that the idea relativises and erodes the significance of the historical Christ event it is argued that Rahner re-locates, rather than relativises the incarnation and cross within the totality of God’s plan of salvation. Accusations that the idea of the “anonymous Christian” adversely affected the Church’s missionary activity, and that the terminology is inappropriate, are also considered. While it is accepted that the terminology is best jettisoned, it is argued that the substance of the idea is found in the teaching of the Second Vatican Council, teaching Rahner himself influenced. It is argued that Rahner’s unpacking of the absolute nature of God’s salvific will serves as an important corrective both to contemporary Church documents and to theologies, which, in an effort to underscore the uniqueness and indispensable nature of the Church’s role in God’s plan of salvation, tend to underplay the presence of divine grace in other religions and in the lives of nonChristians. At the same time, Rahner’s idea is a challenge to a culture marked by indifference, a position which according to Rahner’s theology, cannot be considered salvific.","PeriodicalId":41540,"journal":{"name":"Louvain Studies","volume":"29 1","pages":"107-130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2004-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2143/LS.29.1.505250","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68119292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Karl Rahner, Theologian of the Experience of God?","authors":"R. V. Nieuwenhove","doi":"10.2143/LS.29.1.505249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/LS.29.1.505249","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41540,"journal":{"name":"Louvain Studies","volume":"29 1","pages":"92-106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2004-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2143/LS.29.1.505249","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68119192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rahner in the Mirror of Poststructuralism: The Practice of Theology as the Venture of Thought","authors":"J. Mcsweeney","doi":"10.2143/LS.29.1.505254","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/LS.29.1.505254","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41540,"journal":{"name":"Louvain Studies","volume":"29 1","pages":"187-208"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2004-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2143/LS.29.1.505254","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68119308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This essay starts out by identifying two contrary but equally inadequate ways in which to receive Rahner’s theological legacy, each of which serves to distort and diminish his true lasting significance for contemporary Catholic theology. Where one would treat his work as a new orthodoxy and narrow the task of interpretation to a self-enclosed Rahnerian scholasticism, the other would succumb to a simplistic construal of the relationship between Rahner’s progressivism and the more conservatively inclined counter-forces that now prevail. The central constructive counter-claim of this essay is that honouring Rahner’s legacy requires us to continue and extend his characteristic concern to explore rigorously yet imaginatively how Catholic thought and practice can be authentically renewed and refashioned in the various particular situations in which it finds itself. This claim is pressed in four phases: I. brief review of story and influence; II. resume of key critical reactions; III. outline of some significant fresh readings and IV. reflections on Rahner’s lasting significance proper.
{"title":"The Lasting Significance of Karl Rahner for Contemporary Catholic Theology","authors":"P. Murray","doi":"10.2143/LS.29.1.505245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/LS.29.1.505245","url":null,"abstract":"This essay starts out by identifying two contrary but equally inadequate ways in which to receive Rahner’s theological legacy, each of which serves to distort and diminish his true lasting significance for contemporary Catholic theology. Where one would treat his work as a new orthodoxy and narrow the task of interpretation to a self-enclosed Rahnerian scholasticism, the other would succumb to a simplistic construal of the relationship between Rahner’s progressivism and the more conservatively inclined counter-forces that now prevail. The central constructive counter-claim of this essay is that honouring Rahner’s legacy requires us to continue and extend his characteristic concern to explore rigorously yet imaginatively how Catholic thought and practice can be authentically renewed and refashioned in the various particular situations in which it finds itself. This claim is pressed in four phases: I. brief review of story and influence; II. resume of key critical reactions; III. outline of some significant fresh readings and IV. reflections on Rahner’s lasting significance proper.","PeriodicalId":41540,"journal":{"name":"Louvain Studies","volume":"29 1","pages":"8-27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2004-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2143/LS.29.1.505245","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68118466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Karl Rahner, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and the Question of Theological Aesthetics: Preliminary Considerations","authors":"J. Voiss","doi":"10.2143/LS.29.1.505252","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/LS.29.1.505252","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41540,"journal":{"name":"Louvain Studies","volume":"29 1","pages":"147-165"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2004-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2143/LS.29.1.505252","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68119299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Theology, Spirituality, and the Role of Experience in Karl Rahner","authors":"D. Marmion","doi":"10.2143/LS.29.1.505247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/LS.29.1.505247","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41540,"journal":{"name":"Louvain Studies","volume":"29 1","pages":"49-76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2004-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2143/LS.29.1.505247","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68118579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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