Rahner and the Cross: What Kind of Atoning Story Does He Tell?
Classically, Christians have professed the saving efficacy of the cross. Does Karl Rahner? Recent commentary on Foundations of Christian Faith has described Rahner as conflating "atonement" generally with penal substitutionary theories of a changing God, as ruling out the redemptive signif...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Published: |
2021
|
| In: |
Philosophy & theology
Year: 2021, Volume: 33, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 113-137 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Rahner, Karl 1904-1984
/ Atonement
|
| IxTheo Classification: | KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history NBK Soteriology |
| Online Access: |
Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | Classically, Christians have professed the saving efficacy of the cross. Does Karl Rahner? Recent commentary on Foundations of Christian Faith has described Rahner as conflating "atonement" generally with penal substitutionary theories of a changing God, as ruling out the redemptive significance of Christ's death, and as denigrating the normativity of Scripture in order to do so. This article responds to these claims, unfolding Rahner's soteriology and arguing that he advances a theology of the cross which affirms its saving efficacy, including in the last decade of his work. |
|---|---|
| ISSN: | 2153-828X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Philosophy & theology
|
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5840/philtheol20221010146 |
