Understanding Karl Rahner: An Introduction to His Life and Thought - Brossura

Vorgrimmler, Herbert

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0334017238 ISBN 13: 9780334017233

Casa editrice: SCM Press, 2012

Riassunto

Karl Rahner, who died in 1984 at the age of eighty, is recognized as one of the greatest of twentieth-century Roman Catholic theologians, but his works are forbidding in their extent (the list of his writings numbers over 4000 titles!) and his language has often been found extremely difficult by his readers. Moreover, many of those who never had the opportunity to meet him know little about his personality and his life. In this attractive study, Herbert Vorgrimler, a former pupil and lifelong friend, demonstrates that Rahner's work is not as unapproachable as it is made out to be. He begins by producing a portrait of Rahner, his personal characteristics, his main interests, his style, his language, his audience and his spirituality, so that without having specific details of his work and career, we feel that we know the man we are to meet. Then he traces the course of Rahner's life, setting his major writings in a personal context and against the background of the development of Roman Catholic theology in the twentieth century, before and after the Second Vatican Council. An appendix illuminates the Council from letters by Rahner to the author, some of which appear for the first time.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: SCM Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0334017238
• ISBN 13: 9780334017233
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 210
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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