Hugo Rahner

Hugo Rahner SJ Karl Erich ( May 3, 1900 in Pfullendorf, † December 21, 1968 in Munich) was a German Jesuit theologian and historian. He is considered a kerygmatic theology.

Family

Rahner grew up in a traditional Catholic family in Emmer on things; In 1908 the family moved to Freiburg im Breisgau. He was the third of seven children from the marriage of Karl Rahner (1868-1934), teacher training college and high school professor of German, history and French, and his wife Louise, née Trescher ( 1875-1976 ). Hugo is the brother of Elizabeth Rahner, married Cremer, and Karl Rahner SJ.

Life

After six years of military service in the Freiburg Karlskaserne at the end of the First World War, immediately after graduating from high school in 1918 at the grammar school of Freiburg im Breisgau, Rahner occurred on January 11, 1919 in the Society of Jesus, the Jesuit order, a. After his philosophical studies at religious high school in Valkenburg aan de Geul he was 1923-1926 prefect and teacher at Jesuit High School "Stella Matutina " Feldkirch. From 1926 to 1931 he studied philosophy and theology at the Catholic University of Innsbruck. In 1929, he received in Pullach the priesthood by the Archbishop of Munich, Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber. After his patristic doctorate to Dr. theol. in Innsbruck (1931 ), he studied from 1931 to 1934 history at the Rheinische Friedrich- Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, including Franz Joseph Dölger, Wilhelm Levison and Wilhelm Neuss. 1934 Rahner was phil in Bonn on "The counterfeit papal letters from the estate of Jerome Vignier " Dr.. doctorate. In 1935 he habilitated in Innsbruck for the subjects of ancient church history and patristics.

From 1935 he lectured at the University of Innsbruck. On March 12, 1936, he was elected vice- rector of the Jesuit community in Innsbruck. 1937 Rahner was Professor of Church History and Patristic and dogma at the University of Innsbruck. The repeal of the Faculty by the Nazis and the Second World War forced the relocation of the Innsbruck Jesuits and the international seminary Canisianum to Sion (Sion), Switzerland, where he taught from 1938 to 1945 at the Pontifical Faculty of Theology. From 1940 to 1946 he held religious history lectures at the Eranos Club in Locarno, where he met Carl Jung, Mircea Eliade and Rudolf Otto.

After re-establishment of the faculty in Innsbruck (1945 ) Rahner was the first dean of the Faculty of Theology (1945 /46) and finally rector of the university as a whole (1949 /50). 1952/53, he was again dean of the theological faculty. From 1950 to 1956 he was the rector of the college Canisianum. In 1957, he is representative of the Austrian Province of the Order at the 30th General Congregation.

A serious illness ( Parkinson's disease ) in 1963 forced his early retirement. He lived from 1966 in Munich; He was buried in the cemetery of Berchmanskollegs in Pullach.

He has published numerous contributions to patristics, for Ignatius research and to the spiritual situation of the present. For his 60th birthday his Festschrift Sentire Ecclesiam was dedicated with 720 information on the bibliography of his published works.

Work

Together with contemporary theologians (including his brother Karl Rahner ), he worked for a theology that arises entirely at the service of the Annunciation. The relevant basic ideas he presented a theology of preaching (Freiburg 1939) in his work. His church history studies examined the relationship of the Church to Western humanism and the relationship between church and state in general. His investigations on the Church Fathers, the spirituality and meaning of myth and symbolism of their writings and led to numerous books and lectures. His study of the Christian interpretation of Greek mythology opened a new perspective on the emergence of the Church. Rahner has great merit in the rediscovery of church symbolism. Devoted special attention to Rahner the founder of the Jesuits, Ignatius of Loyola, especially in Ignatius of Loyola. Spiritual Letters ( Einsiedeln / Cologne 1956), Ignatius of Loyola. Correspondence with women ( Freiburg 1956) and Ignatius of Loyola as a man and theologian (Freiburg 1964).

Involvement in student organizations

In 1937, he was senior member of the Innsbruck Unitas clubs Norica and grasping stone whose Ehrenseniorate he held. After forced dissolution in 1938, he presented the compounds a booth at the Jesuit College available. In 1954 he was the keynote speaker at the re-establishment ceremony of the Unitas grasping stone. Rahner sat down as well for the re-registration of other fraternities at the University of Innsbruck, as the Corps Athesiadruck Innsbruck.

Works

  • A theology of preaching, Freiburg 1939
  • Western Church freedom, Einsiedeln / Cologne 1943
  • Mater Ecclesia - worship of the Church of the first millennium, Einsiedeln / Cologne 1944
  • Assumption of Mary and the priesthood, Innsbruck 1951
  • Mary and the Church. Ten chapters on the spiritual life, Innsbruck 1951
  • Church and State in Early Christianity, Munich 1951
  • The gambling man, Einsiedeln 1952
  • Symbols of the Church, Salzburg 1954
  • The Church - God's power in human weakness, Freiburg 1956
  • Ignatius of Loyola. Spiritual letters, Einsiedeln / Cologne 1956
  • Ignatius of Loyola. Correspondence with women, Freiburg 1956
  • Greek myths in Christian interpretation, Zurich 1957/Basel 1984
  • Sense of history - personality and history, Kevelaer 1959
  • Assumption of the Church, Freiburg 1961
  • Ignatius of Loyola as a man and theologian / Hugo Rahner. - Freiburg [ inter alia ]: Herder, 1964
  • West, Freiburg 1966
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