The Prophetic Element in the Church: As Conceived in the Theology of Karl Rahner

By David Lowry

The Prophetic Element in the Church examines a particular mode of human knowing and experience as the starting point for demonstrating the intelligibility and necessity of prophetic knowledge and witness. It finds in Karl Rahner's theology a method which is capable of showing how a prophetic kind of knowing is both possible and necessary. Recognizing the difficulties for many today of embracing a clearly human word as divine, this book describes that dynamic in human experience which when properly understood, can be seen to be prophetic knowing and deciding. The text consists of three parts. Part I offers a brief survey of the dynamic character of prophecy as it appears in biblical sources, and concludes with a simple definition of prophetic experience as the "reception" of a timely message, a call to action from God directed to others. Part II and III explore this definition by focusing on an anthropology which would provide for the reception and recognition of a revelation from God; and the implications of such an anthropology for the Church today.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819178578
• ISBN13: 9780819178572
• Release Date: August 1990
• Publisher: University Press Of America
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.7" x 0.8" x 5.7"