From: "henry sholar" <H_SHOLAR-AT-marta.uncg.edu>
Date:          Thu, 28 May 1998 10:37:22 EST
Subject:       Re: God and Being



>> Karl Rahner is the one I mentioned with Prots Tillich and Bultmann.
>> I would too hastily say that he utilized SuZ with a formula of
>> Being = God to organize the dominant "existential Catholic theology."
>
>How exactly did he equate Being with God without making Being into a being, 
>which is precisely what Heidegger is trying to avoid? Surely Rahner addressed 
>such an obvious objection. 
>
>Anthony Crifasi
>


well, i am very hazy about this.  certainly not only sartre
was caught with his pants down when the _letter on humanism_
was published.

i don't know how rahner (or other theologians) sequenced the formula
for God and being, and how they would answer regarding Being as a being.
i suspect that such was not an obvious objection for them and that they
were pouring old wine into new wineskins with the same excitement
as others who hearkened to the magic when heidegger arose on the
horizon.

i hope some old rahner scholars are out there who can 
set this record straight as to how influential heid was for
rahner.

kindest regards,
henry



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