The breadth and depth of his vision have led some to call him the greatest Catholic thinker of the century
Rahner's theological work was always centered on grace as the presence of God in the individual human person and in the whole created order.
For Rahner, religious experience is not to be found or sought in some separate or exotic compartment of life, but in its ordinary moments and events.
For him, salvation is available to all people of good will. The church is the sign and instrument of what a loving and compassionate God is doing on behalf of everyone, both inside and outside the Body of Christ.
[taken from: http://ncronline.org/blogs/essays-theology/saintly-figures-bowman-rahner-and-climacus]
Karl Rahner saw Christianity emerging as a “world church”. At the Second Vatican Council, the Church “appeared for the first time as a world Church in a fully official way.”
For the first time a truly world-wide episcopate was present at the Council, and this episcopate gathered not “as an advisory body for pope but rather with him and under him the final teaching and decision-making body in the Church. For the first time a worldwide episcopate came into existence and functioned independently”
In addition to a worldwide episcopate, signs of the Church's emergence as a world church can be seen in various decrees of the Council, including the Church's allowance of the vernacular in liturgy. Rahner says that “the documents on the Church, on the missions, and on the Church in the modem world proclaim a universal and effective salvific will of God which is limited only by the evil decision of human conscience and nothing else”
As a world church Christian proclamations would be different from region to regions but at the same time would be source of unity in the church in that they would “criticize and enrich one another”
Vatican II was “the active subject of the highest plenary powers in the Church” The question that must be asked, however, is a question of how this plenary authority can be able to act and exist. Rahner warns that the Church has yet to fully answer this question and that if the Church does not act on the reforms mandated by Vatican II then the Church risks falling back into a status of a European and Roman Church.
[taken from: http://www.shc.edu/theolibrary/resources/rahner.htm]
Rahner warns that the Church has yet to fully answer this question and that if the Church does not act on the reforms mandated by Vatican II then the Church risks falling back into a status of a European and Roman Church.
Rahner's theological work was always centered on grace as the presence of God in the individual human person and in the whole created order.
For Rahner, religious experience is not to be found or sought in some separate or exotic compartment of life, but in its ordinary moments and events.
For him, salvation is available to all people of good will. The church is the sign and instrument of what a loving and compassionate God is doing on behalf of everyone, both inside and outside the Body of Christ.
[taken from: http://ncronline.org/blogs/essays-theology/saintly-figures-bowman-rahner-and-climacus]
Karl Rahner saw Christianity emerging as a “world church”. At the Second Vatican Council, the Church “appeared for the first time as a world Church in a fully official way.”
For the first time a truly world-wide episcopate was present at the Council, and this episcopate gathered not “as an advisory body for pope but rather with him and under him the final teaching and decision-making body in the Church. For the first time a worldwide episcopate came into existence and functioned independently”
In addition to a worldwide episcopate, signs of the Church's emergence as a world church can be seen in various decrees of the Council, including the Church's allowance of the vernacular in liturgy. Rahner says that “the documents on the Church, on the missions, and on the Church in the modem world proclaim a universal and effective salvific will of God which is limited only by the evil decision of human conscience and nothing else”
As a world church Christian proclamations would be different from region to regions but at the same time would be source of unity in the church in that they would “criticize and enrich one another”
Vatican II was “the active subject of the highest plenary powers in the Church” The question that must be asked, however, is a question of how this plenary authority can be able to act and exist. Rahner warns that the Church has yet to fully answer this question and that if the Church does not act on the reforms mandated by Vatican II then the Church risks falling back into a status of a European and Roman Church.
[taken from: http://www.shc.edu/theolibrary/resources/rahner.htm]
Rahner warns that the Church has yet to fully answer this question and that if the Church does not act on the reforms mandated by Vatican II then the Church risks falling back into a status of a European and Roman Church.
Rahner was a prophet! How unfortunate that his words have never been fully appreciated and now we are "falling back into a status of a European and Roman Church.
More information: http://people.bu.edu/wwildman/bce/rahner.htm
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