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A Constant Word in a Changing World, Recognising and Resolving Tensions and Tendencies in a Postmodern Context

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Eamonn Conway
Eamonn Conway*
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Theology Department, University of Limerick, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland
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eamonn.conway@mic.ul.ie
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New Blackfriars , Volume 87 , Issue 1008 , March 2006 , pp. 110 - 120
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© The Author 2006. Journal compilation © The Dominican Council/Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2006, 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK and 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, USA

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1 Cf. interview with Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, The Tablet, 17 April 2004.

2 Cf. Karl Rahner, ‘Concerning the Relationship between Nature and Grace’, Theological Investigations I, Darton, Longman & Todd, London, 1974, p. 298.

3 Cf. Coffey, David, ‘The whole Rahner on the Supernatural Existential’, Theological Studies, Vol 65 No.1, March 2004, pp. 73–94CrossRefGoogle Scholar. This is an excellent and lucid introduction of the development and centrality of this key concept in Rahner's theology.

4 Cf. Macquarrie, John, ‘The Anthropological Approach to Theology’, The Heythrop Journal, Vol XXV, 3, 1984, p. 282Google Scholar. The reference is to an important exchange between Rahner and Macquarie a few weeks before Rahner's death during which Macquarrie aligns himself with Rahner in stating that ‘I have always believed in what I might call a common grace: that creation itself brings with it a grace of creation; that as well as the specific Christian grace given in Jesus Christ there is a grace that is available to all human beings.

5 Ratzinger, Joseph, ‘Vom Verstehen des Glaubens. Anmerkungen zu Rahners Grundkurs des Glaubens’, Theologische Revuue, 74, 1978, p. 184Google Scholar. See also an interview with Cardinal Ratzinger http://www.stephanscom.at/suche/articles/2004/03/31/a5251, 31.3.2004 in which he stresses Rahner's faith and loyalty to the Church and to the Jesuits, and says that Rahner was no heretic.

6 Cf. Rulands, Batlogg, et al., Der Denkweg Karl Rahners. Quellen – Entwicklungen – Perspektiven, Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Mainz, 2003, p. 114Google Scholar.

7 Cited in Batlogg, Rulands et al., Op. Cit., p. 116.

8 Cited in Batlogg, Rulands et al., Op. Cit., p. 140.

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14 A phrase used by Professor Jim Corkery SJ in The Irish Times, 26 April 2005.

15 Cf. Karl Rahner, ‘Approaches to Theological Thinking’ in Karl Rahner in Dialogue 1965–1982, Inhofe & Balloons (eds), Crossroads, New York, 1986, p. 127: ‘You can conceive of the world and its history as if gracious and saving interventions of God continually descend on it from above, or you can think of it in such a way that the self-communicating God is its innermost heart.’

16 ‘The God who is Logos guarantees the intelligibility of the world, the intelligibility of our existence, reason's accord with God, and God's accord with reason, even though his understanding infinitely surpasses ours and to us may so often appear to be darkness.’ Ratzinger, Joseph, ‘Introduction to Christianity: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow’, Communio 31, Fall 2004.Google Scholar

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26 Godzieba, Op. Cit., p. 220.

27 Lumen Gentium, n.48.