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Publication Date: 19 Apr 2007 |
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Publisher: SPCK Publishing |
Page Count: 128 |
Author: Karen Kilby |
ISBN-13: 9780281058426, 9780281065110 |
The SPCK Introduction to Karl Rahner
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Summary of The SPCK Introduction to Karl Rahner
Press Reviews
Lucid, perceptive, thickly textured, theologically rich, and refreshingly concise - Kilby's presentation of Rahner's theology is a must for students of Rahner, be they first year seminarians or senior theologians. I have taught her book for years and I still learn something new from it every time I return - it's brilliant reading.'
This is an excellent book, very useful for students and one of the clearest introductions to Rahner.'
Karen Kilby's book will be invaluable to teachers and students because of its lucid, learned, and penetrating understanding of one of the most important theologians of the twentieth century. It is the best single slim volume on Rahner that I know.'
In the 1950s, he was on the margins, his orthodoxy questioned and his work censored. Yet a decade later he was a key theological adviser at the Second Vatican Council and, in almost all accounts but his own, one of the shaping influences upon it. Heavily influenced by Aquinas, his work sought to reconcile Christian faith with contemporary thought and the revelation of God in human experience.
Here, Karen Kilby makes Rahner's often dense and difficult thinking accessible to a wide audience. She sketches a few of the central themes of Rahner's thought and gives the reader both a feeling for the way he approaches problems and some sense of the breadth of his work.
This revised and expanded edition is an ideal introduction to Rahner for students and the general reader.