Karl Rahner: theological anthropology
“[Man] is a Christ-centred being, i.e. his being possesses an ontic and spiritual-personal capacity for communicating with Jesus Christ in whom God has forever made the countenance of a man his own and has opened the reality of man, with an unsurpassable finality, in the direction of God; only thus was the real possibility of a direct communication of all men with God established with finality. Hence we can only speak ultimately of God by engaging ... in anthropology; and ultimately any information about anthropology ... can be given only when we engage in theology about God and from God.”
—Karl Rahner, Theological Investigations II (London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 1963), pp. 240-41.
Hi Ben
Another mind blowing comment. Are you a theology teacher or what? And what Christian tradition does this author come from?
Man your blog is like a university! Very educational.
Best
Oly
Thanks, I'm glad you like the blog. Karl Rahner was a Roman Catholic theologian, and one of the greatest theological thinkers of the 20th century.
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