Karl Rahner's Work on the Assumption of Mary into Heaven

Karl Rahner completed his in 1951 but did not receive permission to publish it from his Jesuit superiors. The work appeared in 2004, twenty years after Rahner's death. This essay examines his work on the Assumption and the censors' objections. Rahner's publication of 1947, "On t...

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Main Author: Fischer, Mark F. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Philosophy Documentation Center 2020
In: Philosophy & theology
Year: 2020, Volume: 32, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 265-282
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Rahner, Karl 1904-1984 / Assumption / Eschatology / Censorship
IxTheo Classification:KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
NBJ Mariology
NBQ Eschatology
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Summary:Karl Rahner completed his in 1951 but did not receive permission to publish it from his Jesuit superiors. The work appeared in 2004, twenty years after Rahner's death. This essay examines his work on the Assumption and the censors' objections. Rahner's publication of 1947, "On the Theology of Death," was appended to the Marian treatise as an "excursus" but laid the foundation for the later work. Rahner interpreted the Assumption as an anticipation of the resurrection of the dead. This essay focuses on three speculations by Rahner: on the relation of the soul to the body, on the maturation of the soul after death, and on the final resurrection as the world's transformation. The censors criticized Rahner's theology of death as too speculative and his Mariology as too minimal. Yet's treatment of Mary as a sign of hope until the second coming vindicated Rahner.
ISSN:2153-828X
Contains:Enthalten in: Philosophy & theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.5840/philtheol2021715140