The SPCK Introduction to Karl Rahner: A Brief Introduction

by KarenKilby (Author)

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  2007

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  Karl Rahner, a German Jesuit, was probably the most prominent and influential Catholic theologian of the twentieth century. This work sketches a few of the central themes of Rahner's thought and gives the reader both a feeling for the way he approaches problems and some sense of the breadth of his work.

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  1997

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  Karl Rahner (1904-84), a prominent and influential Catholic theologian, was ordained in 1932 as a Jesuit priest, taught at Innsbruck and Munich from the late 1930s, and became a key theological adviser to the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s. This text looks at his life and work. This book is part of a series that aims to provide details of biography and thought in a bite-size form on subjects that range from theologians and mystics to clerics and lay people. Each book has a short introduction followed by an extensive treatment of their life and works.