Finding God in a World Come of Age: Karl Rahner and Johann Baptist Metz

During his days in prison in Berlin, Dietrich Bonhoeffer had time to read and reflect on the Enlight-enment and to ask the question of how Christians might live in a world come of age. One can interpret Karl Rahner's theological and pastoral writing as addressing that question. Born in 1904, he lived through both World Wars to a ripe age of 80 and wrote 1651 published works. Although his writing had a unique historical genesis and intellectual setting, along with a technical vocabulary, he consistently wrote out of pastoral concern in an effort to make Christian faith and belief credible in his Western European culture and the new post-WWII context. Probably his most important student was Johann Baptist Metz who was born in Germany 1928, conscripted into the army as a teenager, and after it, turned to the seminary and to theology. He studied with Rahner in Innsbruck and received his doctorate in theology in 1961 and taught at the University of M nster for thirty years. As Dorothee Soelle converted Bultmann's existential analysis into social commitments, so did Metz give new social meaning to Rahner's "transcendental" theology in a time of social cataclysm. Thus, together, Rahner and Metz, not in competition but as complementary, offer a distinctive response to the spiritual question of finding God in the present-day secular world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1531505775
• ISBN13: 9781531505776
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"