Personal Transformation in Karl Rahner's Christianity: Constructed by Love

Abstract

We continue here the work of Karl Rahner, to rescue the human relationship to God from ideology and concept to a living, existential, and transformative relationship of an almost unbearable intimacy. The nature of human life, as graced by the unfathomable sustaining love of God, is discussed in the terms of Rahner's anthropological theology and certain contemporary psychologies of the deep experiencing subject. Rahner's notion of the supernatural existential opens up the idea of ultimate reality as it interpenetrates the subject. Davis' explication of love as an existential, and Grotstein's model of the deep relational unconscious, bring Rahner's ideas into focus. Harris reminds us that by passing beyond language, we can find an unconstrained relationship to these fullnesses.