The ecclesiology of Karl Rahner / Richard Lennan
- Bib ID:
- 1575053
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Lennan, Richard
- Description:
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- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995
- vi, 289 p. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0198263589 (acid-free paper)
- 0198269552 (paperback)
- Summary:
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In the years since the Second Vatican Council, the Catholic Church has struggled to renew its self-understanding and revise its relationship to the world. This book examines the contribution made to those debates by Karl Rahner (1904-1984), one of the foremost Catholic theologians of this century. The book situates Rahner's ecclesiology in the context of his whole theology, focusing in particular on the evolution of his thought over a fifty year period. Dr. Lennan shows how Rahner's approach to the Church was radicalized by his awareness of the rate of social change in the twentieth century. Faithful to the Church's tradition, Rahner was nonetheless convinced of the Church's need to reform its structures and clarify its doctrines in order to respond to a pluralist society. Rahner's vision of the future centred on a church committed both to preservation of its heritage and an openness to change.
- Full contents:
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- 1. The Church: Sacrament of Christ
- 2. The Shape of the Church
- 3. The Spirit: 'The Element of Dynamic Unrest'
- 4. 'The Shock of the New': The Church and the Twentieth Century
- 5. 'Changing Forward': The Impact of Vatican II
- 6. Faith and Authority in a Pluralist Age
- 7. The Open Church and the Future.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-286) and index.
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- Copyright:
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