Rahner

Cards (2)

  • What question does Rahner raise about those before Jesus?
    What about those who never heard of him?
  • Rahner
    • a German Catholic thinker
    • Christianity is the one true religion because of Jesus
    • other religions can help people to salvation but only until a person encounters the Christian message, at which point they can accept or reject it
    • Christian missionaries must not assume that the non-Christians they encounter have no experience of the truth
    • institutions can be a form of anonymous Christianity because they have structures that explore truth and salvation, they can be a means of grace
    • individuals can be anonymous Christians because people who do not identify as members of a religious institution can be said to be good and moral, therefore on their own search for the truth