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Vote: | Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise. |
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Vote: | Grace can and does have a history. |
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Vote: | Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God. |
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Vote: | How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom. |
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Vote: | In the torment of the insufficiency of everything attainable we eventually learn that here, in this life, all symphonies remain unfinished. |
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Vote: | The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all. |
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Vote: | What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression 'This is my Body' means this is myself. |
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Karl Rahner, S.J., (March 5, 1904 – March 30, 1984) was one of the most influential Roman Catholic theologians of the 20th century. He was born in Freiburg, Germany, and died in Innsbruck, Austria. His theology influenced the Second Vatican Council and is ground-breaking for a modern understanding of Catholic faith. Written near the end of his life, Rahner's Foundations of Christian Faith (Grundkurs des Glaubens), is the most developed and systematic of his work, which was for the most of his life done in theological essays.
The basis for Rahner's theology is that all human beings have a latent ("unthematic") experience of God in any experiences of meaning or "transcendental experience." It is only because of this proto-revelation that recognizing a specifically special revelation (such as the Christian gospel) is possible.
The philosophical sources for Rahner's theology include Thomas Aquinas, read from the aspect of contemporary continental philosophy. Rahner attended lectures by Heidegger in Freiburg.
External link * Karl Rahner Society with Biography and Bibliography
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