The Ordinary Transformed: Karl Rahner and the Christian Vision of Transcendence

by R.R. Reno

The Ordinary Transformed addresses a basic question about human existence and God's redemptive What is the role of the worldly context in the Christian vision of transcendence? In exploring the importance and role of the concept of transcendence, R. R. Reno demonstrates the interpretive power of theology by showing how the troublesome but enduring concept of transcendence finds its fullest meaning within the logic of Christianity.

Genres: Theology

224 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1995

About the author

Russell Ronald Reno III is the editor of First Things magazine. He was formerly a professor of theology and ethics at Creighton University.

A theological and political conservative, Reno was baptized into the Episcopal Church as an infant and grew up as a member of the Church of the Redeemer in Baltimore, Maryland. As an adult he was an active participant in the Episcopal Church, serving as Senior Warden of the Church of the Resurrection in Omaha, Nebraska from 1991–1995, as deputy to the General Convention of the Episcopal Church in 1993, 1996, and 1999, and as a member of the Theology Committee of the Episcopal Church's House of Bishops from 2001-2003. On September 18, 2004, he was received into the Roman Catholic Church.