ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS |
vii |
FOREWORD |
ix |
TABLE OF ABBREVIATIONS |
xv |
CHAPTER 1. THE FAITH OF KARL RAHNER |
1 |
1.1 Creeds and Theology |
1 |
1.2 Kerygma and Creeds |
4 |
1.3 Programme for a First Formulation |
7 |
1.4 Second Attempt: Three Short Formulas |
10 |
1.5 Comments and Questions |
15 |
CHAPTER 2. PHILOSOPHICAL THEOLOGY AND TRANSCENDENTAL PHILOSOPHY |
19 |
2.1 The Theologian's Need for a Philosophy |
20 |
2.2 Schleiermacher and Rahner in Search of a Philosophical Theology |
21 |
2.3 Rahner's Option for Transcendental Philosophy |
23 |
2.4 Comments and Questions |
27 |
CHAPTER 3. SPIRIT IN THE WORLD |
31 |
3.1 The Thomistic Basis |
31 |
3.2 Rahner's Interpretation |
32 |
3.2.1 Preapprehension |
33 |
3.2.2 Being as Beisichsein |
35 |
3.2.3 The Objectivity of Knowing |
37 |
3.2.4 The Creativity of Knowing |
40 |
3.3 Comments and Questions |
42 |
CHAPTER 4. THE OPENNESS OF BEING |
47 |
4.1 Transcendental Experience |
47 |
4.2 Metaphysics and Knowledge of God |
49 |
4.2.1 The Grasp of the Finite |
50 |
4.2.2 The Disclosure of the Infinite |
51 |
4.2.3 The Analogy between the Finite and the Infinite |
55 |
4.3 Comments and Questions |
57 |
CHAPTER 5. THE HIDDENNESS OF BEING |
65 |
5.1 Man and the Wholly Other |
65 |
5.2 The Transcendental Experience of Will |
68 |
5.2.1 Freedom: The Basic Identity of Knowing and Willing |
70 |
5.2.2 Person: The Transcendence of Limited Freedom |
71 |
5.2.3 Man's Creatureliness and the Personal God |
75 |
5.2.4 Corollary: Is Atheism Possible? |
79 |
5.3 Comments and Questions |
81 |
CHAPTER 6. HEARERS OF THE WORD |
93 |
6.1 Matter, Time, History, and Revelation |
93 |
6.2 The Word and its Hearers |
95 |
6.3 From the Man of Hearers towards Position of Foundations |
97 |
6.4 Comments and Questions |
100 |
CHAPTER 7. GOD THE MYSTERY |
109 |
7.1 The Substitution of 'the Mystery' for 'God' |
110 |
7.2 The Mystery and our Beatitude |
112 |
7.3 Comments and Questions |
115 |
NOTES |
125 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY |
145 |