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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Karl Rahner"”.
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The notion of the self with special reference to Karl Rahner and Julia Kristeva
This work considers Karl Rahner’s theology of the person as hearer through a critical engagement with Julia Kristeva’s post-structuralist notion of the speaking subject. This offers an experimental exploration of contemporary theological understanding of subjectivity, with specific reference to …
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Filiación-Fraternidad: The Hope of Human Existence in Light of Global Disparity. Exploring the Theological Anthropologies of Karl Rahner and José Ignacio González Faus.
… anthropologies of two Jesuit theologians: Karl Rahner and José Ignacio González Faus. This dissertation attempts to bring these two theologians into a dynamic dialogue and ultimately offer a critical analysis of the nature of sin, grace, and redemption in their respective understanding of …
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Uncertainty Before and After Faith: The Dynamics of Belief in Theology and Literature
… the thought of Martha Nussbaum, David Tracy, Karl Rahner, and Charles Taylor to consider the kind of "thinking" and imagining about faith presented by through the genre of the novel.</p><p>What will emerge in this investigation is the necessity of uncertainty as a means to prompt conversion, …
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What is the Spirit Saying to the Churches? Toward a Contemporary Ecumenical Pneumatology
… use these gifts in ministry within the church. Karl Rahner promoted the charismatic dynamic of ecclesiology, which he saw as having a democratizing effect upon ministries. Yves Congar, inspired by dialogue with Orthodox theologians, sought to recover the missing connection between Pneumatology, …
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Trinitarian Grammars: A Comparison of Gregory of Nazianzus and Some Contemporary Models
… The contemporary theologians analyzed include Karl Rahner, Cornelius Plantinga, Bruce Ware, and Thom McCall. The contemporary models are wrong to claim Gregory as their historical precedent because they fail to meet the most basic standards of Orthodoxy as presented by Gregory. One of the main …
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Lonely Mystics: A Practical Theological Analysis of Emerging Post-Secular Spiritualities
<p>In 1981, Catholic theologian Karl Rahner wrote about the increasingly lonely experience of the individual seeking an experience of God, a reaction to the continuing decline of church attendance and religious adherence. This prediction echoes today in the emergence of a plethora of spiritual …
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Die Herzenswunde Gottes: die Theologie des durchbohrten Herzens Jesu als Zugang zu einer spirituellen Theodizeefrage
… beschäftigt sich mit dem Beitrag von Karl Rahner SJ zur Herz-Jesu-Theologie, der Wesentliches für ein anthropologisches, symboltheologisches und theologisch-spirituelles Fundament beigetragen hat. Im 4. Kapitel wird aus dem erarbeiteten Material eine spirituelle Theodizeefrage des …
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Konstruktive Dekonstruktion? : zur theologischen Rezeption Jacques Derridas im deutschsprachigen Raum
… Übergänge zwischen der Sakra-mententheologie Karl Rahners und der Dekonstruktion zu markieren. <br>Im ersten Teil „Konstruktive Dekonstruktion? Derridas Denken an der Grenze und im Zwischen“ werden die Grundbegriffe und wesentlichen Denkbewegungen Derridas nachge-zeichnet. Dabei ist Derrida …
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The Future of the Sacrament of Penance: An African Reconciliatory Paradigm in the Light of Karl Rahner's Theology of Penance
… of reconciliation in the African culture and Karl Rahner’s theology of the sacramentality of the Church, this doctoral thesis opens a debate about the kind of renewal required to revitalise the dwindling practice of sacramental confession. The Second Vatican Council, in which the German Jesuit …
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The Self-Transcendence of Jesus A Model for the Evangelisation of the Adolescent
… answer, I have been inspired by the theology of Karl Rahner who asked “what are the basic fundamental conditions for knowing God?” In other words, given that we know there is a God, what must be correspondingly real in our human makeup to give flesh to that belief? For Rahner, the answer lay in …
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Anglican-Roman Catholic Ecumenical Dialogue: A Case for a Rahnerian Logic of Symbol
… conversion in both communions. Drawing upon Karl Rahner's theology of symbol, this dissertation argues that such a cognitive and narrative conversion is determined by the interpretation and appropriation of God's mystery as the origin and goal of Christian activity and belief. As such, there …