Understanding Karl Rahner Herbert Vorgrimler Paperback 1986 Biography

Understanding Karl RahnerAn Introduction to His Life and Thought\nAuthor(s): Herbert Vorgrimmler\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: SCM Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: SCM Press\nISBN-13: 9780334017233, 978-0334017233\nSynopsis\nKarl Rahner, who died in 1984 at the age of eighty, is recognized as one of the greatest of twentieth-century Roman Catholic theologians, but his works are forbidding in their extent (the list of his writings numbers over 4000 titles!) and his language has often been found extremely difficult by his readers. Moreover, many of those who never had the opportunity to meet him know little about his personality and his life. In this attractive study, Herbert Vorgrimler, a former pupil and lifelong friend, demonstrates that Rahner's work is not as unapproachable as it is made out to be. He begins by producing a portrait of Rahner, his personal characteristics, his main interests, his style, his language, his audience and his spirituality, so that without having specifi.