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A Theology of Glory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2024

Hamish Swanston
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In the introduction to his admirable translation of Karl Rahner's Schriften zur Theologie, I, Fr Cornelius Ernst begins by pointing out that Rahner is a theologian totally competent in the study of the past. Editor of Denzinger's Enchiridion Symbolorum, and co-editor of the Lexicon fur Theologie und Kirche, Rahner has obvious qualifications in the presentation of what has so far been achieved in theology. But he is more than an historian. He works in the present, the studies collected here are concerned with matters of moment, not with past disputes. He works in the present for the future when we shall know all that has already been revealed.

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Research Article
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Life of the Spirit , Volume 17 , Issue 202 , June 1963 , pp. 523 - 533
Copyright
Copyright © 1963 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

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References

1 Theological Investigations, VOL. I, God, Christ, Mary And Grace; by Karl Rahner, translated with an introduction by Cornelius Ernst, o.p.; Darton, Longman and Todd Ltd, 63s.

2 In another of the papers in this book, Theos in the New Testament, Rahner shews how the Revelation of God is inextricably involved in human history in two senses: in the sense of divine historicity since God chooses a moment to reveal himself to men already in existence, and in the sense of human historicity since there is a real history of revelation. God has not chosen to deliver his revelation to men all at one time.

3 Nor indeed with his methods. In this case, while one can well understand the need for a theologian to be content with his peculiar sphere, it seems a little unrealistic to announce diat ‘no attention will be given to that aspect of the problem concerned with natural sciences’ since it is precisely in connection with the natural sciences that the problem becomes one of conscience to many of Rahner's readers.

4 For example, he gives full weight to the revision of the draft concerning the connection of original sin and polygenism in Humani Generis from ‘cum appareat nequaquam componi posse…’ to ‘nequaquam appareat quomodo … componi queat’ which appears to many to leave the question unsettled.

5 Jean de Fraine, S.J. in Adam et son Lignage: Etudes sur la notion de ‘personality corporative’ dans la Bible (Bruges 1959) opens up a great many further texts on tms question. I find him convincing.

6 Karl Barth, Romans 5 (Scottish Journal of Theology, Occasional Paper 6