Foundations of Christian Faith: An Introduction to the Idea of Christianity
Munich · 1976
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Karl Rahner
Karl Rahner
1904 CE–1984 CE · Modern · Pullach bei München
Karl Rahner (1904–1984) was a German Jesuit priest and theologian widely regarded as one of the most influential Catholic thinkers of the twentieth century. Drawing on the transcendental method of Kant and the existential phenomenology of Heidegger, he developed a form of transcendental Thomism that grounded Catholic doctrine in an analysis of human experience as inherently oriented toward the mystery of God. His concept of the "anonymous Christian" — that individuals outside explicit Christianity may nonetheless be recipients of salvific grace — provoked widespread debate and shaped ecumenical theology. Rahner served as a peritus (expert adviser) at the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965), where his thought significantly influenced the council's more open and anthropological approach to revelation and the church. His multivolume Theological Investigations remains a landmark of modern systematic theology.
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Stop 2 of 71924–1927Philosophy Studies
Pullach bei MünchenGermany
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Undertook his Jesuit philosophical formation at the Berchmanskolleg in Pullach (near Munich), the standard locus for Jesuit philosophy studies in the German province at this period.
About Pullach bei München
Pullach, near Munich in Bavaria, Germany, site of a Jesuit house of studies. Karl Rahner taught philosophy there in the order's formation programme.
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