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Organized as a companion volume to Karl Rahners master work, Foundations of Christian Faith, this book, now again available, also provides the most useful introduction to his theology as a whole. Each chapter presents a broad commentary on the corresponding chapter of Foundations, beginning with Rahners method and anthropology and concluding with his theology of the church and eschatology. It includes a separate chapter on Rahners moral thought. Valuable for classroom or individual use, this volume provides questions for discussion, suggestions for further reading, and an extensive glossary of specialized terminology.
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A World of Grace : An Introduction to the Themes and Foundations of Karl Rahner's Theology
author
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O'Donovan, Leo J.
publisher
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Georgetown University Press
isbn10 | asin
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0878405968
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9780878405961
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9780585202570
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English
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Rahner, Karl,--1904- , Grace (Theology)
publication date
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1995
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BX4705.R287W67 1995eb
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230/.2/092
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Rahner, Karl,--1904- , Grace (Theology)
A World of Grace
An Introduction to the Themes and Foundations of Karl Rahner's Theology
Edited by Leo J. O'Donovan
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS/WASHINGTON, D.C.
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Georgetown University Press, Washington, D.C. 1995 by Georgetown University Press. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America
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This volume is printed on acid-free offset book paper
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
A world of grace : an introduction to the themes and foundations of Karl Rahner's theology / Leo J. O'Donovan, editor. p. cm. Originally published: New York : Seabury Press, 1980. Includes bibliographical references. 1. Rahner, Karl, 1904- . 2. Grace (Theology) I. O'Donovan, Leo J. BX4705.R287W67 1995 230 .2092dc20 ISBN 0-87840-596-8 (pbk. : alk. paper) 95-23073
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Contents
Preface With a Note on Using This Book
Leo J. O'Donovan
vii
1 Theology in a New Key
William V. Dych
1
2 Starting with the Human
Anne E. Carr
17
3 Within the Holy Mystery
Michael J. Buckley
31
4 The Bonds of Freedom
Brian O. McDermott
50
5 The Invitation of Grace
John P. Galvin
64
6 A History of Grace
Thomas F. O'Meara
76
7 Discovering Jesus Christ: A History We Share
J. Peter Schineller
92
8 Anticipating Jesus Christ: An Account of Our Hope
Otto H. Hentz
107
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9 On Being ChristianTogether
Michael A. Fahey
120
10 The Realism of Christian Life
John Carmody
138
11 The Hope for Humanity
William M. Thompson
153
12 An Ethics of Faith
James F. Bresnahan
169
Basic Bibliography
185
Glossary
187
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Preface
We live in a world that is growing at the same time ever closer and yet further apart. On the one hand there are astonishing new technologies for communication and travel, for industry and leisure. We can dial a business call direct to another continent. On American television we can see a baby being born tomorrow in Japan. Raw materials once imported by clipper ships are now delivered by Greek supertankers. We have grown accustomed to seeing pictures beamed to us from the moon and from still more distant realms of outer space. But, on the other hand, it often appears that we have not been brought closer together by these achievements: they remind us instead of our distance from one another. Global suspicions are aggravated rather than quieted during nuclear disarmament talks. Multinational corporations seem more a threat to free political process than an encouragement to commercial cooperation. Developing countries are not less but more exploited in their relations with richer nations, and we speak now not only of the Third World but also, ruefully, of the Fourth. Whether inner or outer, our pictures of ourselves can seldom be clearly focussed. Thus we live not only amidst an ever increasing pluralism but, as a prominent American theologian has said, in an insistently conflictual pluralism.
How easily, then, it may seem presumptuous to present a collection of theological essays entitled A World of Grace. Can we really speak of a world today, much less of a gracious world? Does it not seem time for the traditional pretensions of theology to retire from the scene, yielding to the many critics who have insisted over the past century and a half that the God of the past is, in our time, at best absent and at worst dead? Some classical ways of speaking about the human conditionliterature, history, philosophy, politicsmay still make a certain sense. Newer disciplineseconomics, biology, sociology, depth psychologyhave added invaluable further perspectives, often in a way openly antagonistic to religion. But is there a future for theology as such in our conversa-
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tions and our work to make something more human of our world? What part can it possibly play in the drama of our search for ourselves, on the campuses of our universities, in the market place, or in our political process?
The man whose thought our volume introduces does not intend to propose grand answers to such questions. He does not think that the pluralism of human experience in its changing forms can be neatly systematized. He welcomes new ventures in understanding the world in which we live, from the many disciplines already developed as well as from others yet to be discovered. He knows that conflict is an ineluctable part of human history, and he even has theological grounds for expecting it to increase rather than decrease in the future. Our problems, as well as our limited successes, are not so much a situation he regrets as one he recognizes. As a theologian he finds himself called to see how the human situation opens out beyond itself, not simply to limit it to earlier perspectives. That the question of God has been raised with new urgency in our time is as clear to him as that we human beings have become increasingly more puzzling to ourselves. The question of God, after all, who God is and what God means for the world, has always been the defining issue of theology. But it has always been accompanied in one way or another by the question of humanity, who we are and what we mean for the world. And for Karl Rahner the two questions and their always partial answers must continually walk together: We can only seek God as we seek true humanity, we can only find truth about ourselves as we find truth about God.
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