Wolfhart Pannenberg

  Roger Haight's   Jesus Symbol of God   (Orbis Books, 1999) [1]   stands as a bold, ambitious attempt to construct a systematic Christology attuned to the challenges of postmodernity—historical consciousness, religious pluralism, social critique, and a demand for intelligibility in a fragmented world. He presents a robust and apologetic Christology, meticulously crafted for a postmodern intellectual landscape. This means he will intersect with Wolfhart Pannenberg and diverge from Karl Barth. Central to Haight's project is the conviction that our understanding of Jesus (Christology) must emerge from our experience of salvation (soteriology). Haight, a Jesuit theologian, begins "from below," grounding his reflection in the historical Jesus of Nazareth as the concrete symbol mediating God's salvific presence. Revelation is always historically mediated, faith is experiential and soteriological (rooted in encounters of salvation), and theology must be symbolic: dialec...

Karl Rahner 2017 Contents Introduction . 1 Philosophical Anthropology . 2 Trinity . 8 Creation . 11 Christology . 11 Christian Life . 17 Eschatology . 20     Introduction         I am reflecting upon the ways in which Roman Catholic Jesuit priest and theologian Karl Rahner (1904-84) has influenced the way I have come to engage in the theological enterprise. I have found him quite insightful. I have not found him as helpful in working through a view of the church. He is too Roman Catholic for me. I respect his view that the church is a sign or provisional representation of the rule of God. Thus, it should never confuse its historical presence with that rule. [1] However, in important junctures of theological reflection, he has offered much that I have found agreeable. Pannenberg notes that the term “transcendental” by Rahner refers structural relation of anthropology, theology, and Christ...