Karl Rahner believed that, ideally, the arts should “become an intrinsic moment of theology itself.” Unsurprisingly, the German Jesuit theologian looked to culture as a source for divine illumination.

For my birthday this year, a friend gave me a collection of writings by Karl Rahner. The collection is titled The Great Church Year: The Best of Karl Rahner’s Homilies, Sermons, and Meditations. As ...

Stephen Crittenden But first, he's been described as the architect of the Second Vatican Council, and by general agreement he was the most influential Catholic theologian of the 20th century. The ...

Zeitschrift für katholische Theologie, Vol. 136, No. 3 (2014), pp. 273-285 (13 pages) On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the death of Karl Rahner this study takes its starting point the with ...

In the fall of 1938, after the suppression of the theological faculty of the University of Innsbruck and before the expropriation of the seminary „Canisianum“ by the Nazis, Karl Rahner gave a number ...

Karl Rahner continues to be discussed even 40 years after his death. Born on March 5, 1904, in Freiburg, Breisgau, Germany, he entered the Society of Jesus on April 20, 1922, and died on March 30, ...

The first edition of Jesuit Fr. Karl Rahner’s Hörer des Wortes appeared in 1941. It was the compilation of 15 lectures that Rahner (1904-84) delivered at the Salzburg Summer School in 1937 concerning ...

In 1950, the renowned German theologian and theological peritus at the Second Vatican Council, Jesuit Fr. Karl Rahner, published a short article titled, "A Faith That Loves the Earth," in the journal ...

MIAMI – Catholic theology lost a giant Monday with the death of German Father Johann Baptist Metz, a disciple of famed Jesuit theologian Karl Rahner and the father of what was known as “new political ...