The Content of Faith: The Best of Karl Rahner's Theological Writings

by Karl Rahner

No single anthology could hope to capture the full scope of Karl Rahner's thought—his publications numbering over 3,500 separate works in the years between 1924 and 1979—but this collection is the best that could possibly be devised, containing 174 selections which reflect the best of Rahner's thought from the early 1950s to 1980.

Genres: Theology, Religion, Christianity, Philosophy

688 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

Karl Rahner, SJ (March 5, 1904 — March 30, 1984) was a German Jesuit and theologian who, alongside Bernard Lonergan and Hans Urs von Balthasar, is considered one of the most influential Roman Catholic theologians of the 20th century.

He was born in Freiburg, Germany, and died in Innsbruck, Austria.

Before the Second Vatican Council, Rahner had worked alongside Yves Congar, Henri de Lubac and Marie-Dominique Chenu, theologians associated with an emerging school of thought called the Nouvelle Théologie, elements of which had been criticized in the encyclical Humani Generis of Pope Pius XII.

Reviews

[Carmen · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a 668 page anthology of German Catholic theologian Karl Rahner's writing, so I'm not done reading yet. What I've read so far is dense but mind-blowing. I highly recommend. Will add more thoughts as I process it.