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Karl Rahner, a German Jesuit, was a prominent and influential Catholic theologian of the twentieth century. In the 1950s he was on the margins, his orthodoxy questioned and his work censored. However, a decade later, he was a key theological adviser and shaping influence at the Second Vatican Council. Heavily influenced by Aquinas, his work sought to reconcile Christian faith with contemporary...

the transformation which created grace brought about in a person. The more biblical view, Rahner maintains, is that created grace flows from uncreated grace. The spirit of God dwells in us, and as a result, ‘as a consequence and a manifestation’ of this divine self-communication, we are transformed concretely and in particular ways. God transforms us by giving himself to us, rather than giving himself to us because he has transformed us. This difference in ordering corresponds to an important difference
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