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Karl Rahner Volume Seventeen

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2024

Fergus Kerr OP
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Another one safely on the shelf, with only five more to come, and then all fourteen thick volumes of Karl Rahner's Schriften zur Theologie (1954-1980) will be translated into English, in some twenty-one slimmer and somewhat more manageable ones. This particular instalment is the second part of the volume which Rahner put together shortly after the celebration for his seventieth birthday (the volume itself was dedicated to his mother on her hundredth birthday).

The only comparable oeuvre by a Catholic theologian of Rahner's generation would no doubt be that of Hans Urs von Balthasar, but the translation into English is lagging far behind.

Type
Research Article
Information
New Blackfriars , Volume 62 , Issue 733-734 , July 1981 , pp. 335 - 345
Copyright
Copyright © 1981 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

References

1 In several of my quotations I have modified the translation which (in my opinion) would often have been much clearer if it had been more literal.

2 “Consider a few institutions”, as H. McC, once invited our readers (New Blackfriars, February 1967): “Spode House, the Newman Theology Groups, the Union of Catholic Students” etc.

3 The same idea is found in the work of another Continental thinker, Karol Wojtyla (The Acting Person, p 343) “The structure of a human community is correct only if it admits not just the presence of a justified opposition but also that effectiveness of opposition which is required by the common good and the right of participation.

4 A shelf of books can't be weighed in a balance with a conference centre; but over the past thirty years Spode House has certainly embodied and radiated a vision of the Catholic Church which is both critical and traditional in the right sense. My first meeting with the Warden was at Christmas 1954: I hated every minute of the party but Miss Beechey initiated me into the Dominican breviary and 1 could withdraw from the traditional games to read, back numbers of Blackfriars and The Life of the Spirit in the quiet room ‐ which is one reason that I am happy to be able to contribute to this special issue.