| Translation Editor's Preface |
xi |
| Introduction |
1 |
| Karl Rahner: A Portrait, by Karl Lehmann |
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| WHAT IS CHRISTIANITY? |
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| 1. A Short Formula of the Christian Faith |
45 |
| 2. The Sacramental Structure of the Christian Salvation-Reality |
49 |
| 3. Christianity and World Religions |
51 |
| 4. Christianity Is Not an Ideology 55 |
55 |
| 5. Jesus Christ: The Synthesis 63 |
63 |
| 6. Why Remain a Christian? 66 |
66 |
| THE MYSTERY OF EXISTENCE |
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| 7. The Mystery of the Human Person |
73 |
| 8. Nature as Creation |
82 |
| 9. Life |
85 |
| 10. The Human Person as God's Creature |
89 |
| 11. The Human Spirit |
90 |
| 12. "You Are Dust!" |
92 |
| 13. Freedom Received from and Directed toward God |
96 |
| 14. Freedom as the Total and Finalizing Self-Mastery of the Subject |
100 |
| 15. Freedom and Ensnarement in Guilt |
103 |
| 16. Love: The Basic Human Act |
107 |
| 17. Propositional Knowledge and Primordial Consciousness |
114 |
| 18. Intellectual Honesty and Human Decision |
116 |
| 19. The Divided and Enigmatic Nature of Humanity |
118 |
| 20. Individuality and Community |
121 |
| 21. The Child |
123 |
| 22. The Challenge of Growing Old |
129 |
| 23. The Pilgrimage of Life |
131 |
| 24. Human Death |
135 |
| 25. On Work |
137 |
| 26. Patience |
138 |
| 27. On Illness |
141 |
| 28. Renunciation and Self-Realization |
144 |
| 29. Laughter |
148 |
| 30. On Getting About |
152 |
| 31. Seeing and Hearing |
154 |
| 32. Primordial Words |
159 |
| 33. Hearer of the Word |
164 |
| 34. The Contemporary Inner Threat to Truth |
169 |
| 35. "Freedom": A Contemporary Slogan |
174 |
| 36. Christian Faith and Secularization |
177 |
| 37. When Are We Peace-Loving? |
179 |
| 38. Creative Hope for Peace |
180 |
| 39. The World and the Angels I |
182 |
| 40. The World and the Angels II |
188 |
| 41. The World and History as the Event of God's Self-Communication |
193 |
| 42. Evil and the Devil |
196 |
| 43. The Need of Redemption |
199 |
| ON THE LIVING GOD |
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| 44. The Word "God" |
205 |
| 45. Images of God |
211 |
| 46. Troubled Atheism? |
213 |
| 47. God Is Far from Us |
216 |
| 48. Natural Knowledge of God? |
220 |
| 49. Experience of Self and Experience of God |
222 |
| 50. God Is No Scientific Formula |
227 |
| 51. The True God |
230 |
| 52. God in the Old Testament |
232 |
| 53. God in the New Testament |
233 |
| 54. The Uniqueness of God in the New Testament |
237 |
| 55. God as Person in the New Testament |
240 |
| 56. On the Personal Being of God |
247 |
| 57. God Is Love |
250 |
| 58. God, Our Father |
257 |
| 59. Non-Christian and Christian Conceptions of God |
259 |
| 60. God and Creatures |
261 |
| 61. God's Self-Disclosure and the Human Word |
264 |
| 62. A Prayer: God of My Life |
266 |
| JESUS CHRIST |
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| 63. Jesus of Nazareth between Jews and Christians |
273 |
| 64. Seeking Jesus Christ |
277 |
| 65. Approaches to Jesus Christ |
279 |
| 66. "I Believe in Jesus Christ" |
283 |
| 67. The Birth of the Lord |
286 |
| 68. The Everydayness of Jesus' Life |
289 |
| 69. Jesus' Self-Consciousness |
291 |
| 70. The Core of Jesus' Proclamation |
293 |
| 71. The Will for the Cross |
297 |
| 72. "Behold the Man" |
298 |
| 73. The High Point of Jesus' Mission |
302 |
| 74. The Cross as the Revelation of God's Love |
304 |
| 75. Gratitude for the Cross |
308 |
| 76. Jesus' Resurrection |
311 |
| 77. The Easter Message |
319 |
| 78. The Glorified Lord |
324 |
| 79. Christ's Ascension into Heaven |
327 |
| 80. The Eternal Significance of Jesus' Humanity |
332 |
| 81. The Christological Dogma |
334 |
| 82. The Credibility of the Dogma on the Incarnation |
337 |
| 83. The Two Basic Types of Christology |
339 |
| 84. The Christian Doctrine of Redemption |
345 |
| 85. Incarnation and Imitation |
348 |
| 86. A Prayer to Jesus Christ |
351 |
| THE HOLY SPIRIT |
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| 87. The Holy Spirit as the Fruit of Redemption |
355 |
| 88. Pentecost |
359 |
| 89. The Holy Spirit and the Church |
361 |
| 90. The Holy Spirit and the Mysticism of Everyday Life |
367 |
| 91. The Triune God I |
375 |
| 92. The Triune God II |
377 |
| 93. The Triune God and Monotheism |
382 |
| 94. A Prayer at Pentecost |
384 |
| THE PEOPLE OF GOD IN HISTORY |
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| 95. Witness to the World's Salvation |
389 |
| 96. The Church: The Basic Sacrament of the World's Salvation |
390 |
| 97. The Closure of Revelation |
401 |
| 98. Scripture as the Book of the Church |
402 |
| 99. Truth and the Development of Dogma |
406 |
| 100. What Is "Demythologizing?" |
409 |
| 101. The Holy Church |
410 |
| 102. The Sinful Church |
413 |
| 103. The Church and Freedom |
416 |
| 104. The Priest |
417 |
| 105. Ministry of the Word |
419 |
| 106. Women and the Priesthood |
424 |
| 107. Charisms |
433 |
| 108. Religious Life |
437 |
| 109. Religious Life and Change |
440 |
| 110. Pastoral Care of the Laity |
443 |
| 111. Mission |
449 |
| 112. Mary and the Church |
451 |
| 113. The Feast of Mary's Immaculate Conception |
455 |
| 114. Mary's Assumption |
459 |
| 115. Does Mary Divide the Denominations? |
463 |
| 116. The Marian Dogmas and Protestant Theology |
465 |
| 117. The Roman Catholic Church |
466 |
| 118. Toward Ecumenical Dialogue |
469 |
| 119. Theses for the Unity of the Churches |
476 |
| 120. Dangers for the Church |
478 |
| 121. Trust within the Church |
479 |
| 122. A Servant Church |
483 |
| 123. The Church as a Tiny Flock |
485 |
| 124. A Declericalized Church |
487 |
| 125. Democratization of the Church |
491 |
| 126. A Letter from the Pope in the Year 2020 |
492 |
| 127. The Church as a Critic of Society |
494 |
| 128. Assent to the Actual Church |
495 |
| 129. What the People Actually Believe |
501 |
| CHRISTIAN LIFE |
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| 130. One Must Name the Mystery |
507 |
| 131. Prayer as the Fundamental Act of Human Existence |
509 |
| 132. Pray Daily Life! |
510 |
| 133. The Prayer of Petition I |
513 |
| 134. The Prayer of Petition II |
518 |
| 135. Love of God |
520 |
| 136. Baptism and Confirmation |
524 |
| 137. Original Sin |
526 |
| 138. Sin and Guilt |
531 |
| 139. Venial Sin |
535 |
| 140. Morality without Moralizing |
537 |
| 141. Existential Ethics |
543 |
| 142. Penance and the Anointing of the Sick |
544 |
| 143. The Eucharist |
547 |
| 144. The Meal of Pilgrims |
550 |
| 145. The Mystery of Christian Marriage |
553 |
| 146. The Sobriety of Christian Life |
556 |
| 147. Calm Readiness for God |
560 |
| 148. Christian Flight from the World |
562 |
| 149. Christian Joy in the World |
566 |
| 150. Grace and Dying with Christ |
568 |
| 151. To the Greater Glory of God |
571 |
| 152. The Unity of Love of God and Neighbor |
579 |
| 153. Internal Threat to the Faith |
587 |
| 154. The Christian in the World |
588 |
| 155. The Missionary Task of the Christian |
592 |
| 156. Christianity and Literature |
597 |
| 157. Faith and Culture |
599 |
| 158. A Prayer to the Lord Who Is Present |
604 |
| HOPE IN GOD |
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| 159. Utopia and Reality |
609 |
| 160. Christian Pessimism |
612 |
| 161. The Advent Person |
616 |
| 162. The Real Future |
619 |
| 163. The Christian Understanding of Death |
625 |
| 164. The Intermediate State |
631 |
| 165. Judgment |
632 |
| 166. Purgatory |
633 |
| 167. Eternal Damnation? |
634 |
| 168. Eternity in Time |
637 |
| 169. Hope of Eternal Life |
641 |
| 170. The Beatific Vision FAITH |
649 |
| 171. Heaven |
651 |
| 172.Resurrection of the Flesh |
652 |
| 173.Christian Optimism |
657 |
| 174. Prayer for Hope |
658 |
| Selected Bibliography |
663 |