Encounters with Karl Rahner: Remembrances of Rahner by those who knew him (Marquette Studies in Theology)

Many scholarly books have been written on the Jesuit theologian Karl Rahner, but what was he like as a human being? How did his co-workers, his Jesuit colleagues, his students, his relatives and friends encounter him? This book, containing 28 interviews with those closest to him, reveals the human side of Karl Rahner. Yes, he was impatient, melancholy, overworked, but he also possessed a childlike curiosity, prayerful spirit, and gentle heart. His only goal was to serve the Church and help people be mindful of God. This book makes much that Karl Rahner wrote more intelligible and allows us to encounter him today in a new way, in the twenty-fifth year of his anniversary of death (March 30, 1984).