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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...

fundamental drive, beyond any and every finite object towards the infinity of being and God, and this dynamism is a ‘condition of the possibility’ of knowledge—without such a drive towards the infinite the finite could not be known. To get some purchase on this idea it might be helpful to consider the process of climbing a mountain. Imagine Edmund Hillary working his way up Mount Everest. On the one hand Hillary moves towards the peak; on the other hand he takes particular steps. The two things are
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