Hearer of the word karl rahner biography

Karl Rahner 1904-1984

On 30 March UCD held a seminar in Newman House to mark the 25 years that have passed since Karl Rahner slipped into what he had called “the colossal silent emptiness of death”, and beyond that into the mystery of the ineffable God. He was the greatest Jesuit theologian of the 20th century.

His bibliography contains some 4000 titles, material for endless doctoral theses. Paul Andrews SJ, who has lived two years longer than Karl did, bows respectfully towards the scholars and reflects instead on the occasions when Karl impacted on him.

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MEMORIES OF KARL RAHNER

Paul Andrews SJ

When, in 1950, I went to study philosophy in Pullach near Munich, our professor of Ontology was a corpulent, gregarious Bavarian called John Baptist Lotz. To us he was distinguished not so much for his philosophy – he re-wrote his codex every year into ever more cloudy shapes – as for the curious fact that he had gone to Freiburg with Karl Rahner seeking a doctorate in ph Hearers of the word : Rahner, Karl, 1904-1984 : Free Download ...

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