Abstract
This article opens with the Second Vatican Council's teaching that the exposition of Catholic moral theology 'should be more thoroughly nourished by scriptural teaching' and suggests that it should also be more thoroughly nourished by and linked to Catholic systematic theology. To that end, it examines the transcendental theology of Karl Rahner and asks about its implications for Catholic moral theology. It examines Rahner's existentials, fundamental, ontological characteristics of human nature that define it, make it specifically human nature, and distinguish it from all other natures. It examines specifically the supernatural existential, God's unexacted self-offer to every human being born into the world, and the equally fundamental human existentials of freedom and historicity. The import for Rahner of these existentials is that humans are freedom, that they are historical, and that they are unexactedly ordered to God. The implications of this transcendental theology for Christian ethics are examined as a conclusion to the article.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 389-418 |
| Number of pages | 30 |
| Journal | Irish Theological Quarterly |
| Volume | 74 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Nov 2009 |
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Karl Rahner and human nature : Implications for ethics. / Lawler, Michael G.; Salzman, Todd A.
In: Irish Theological Quarterly, Vol. 74, No. 4, 11.2009, p. 389-418.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
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