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published on March 31, 2020
Jakob Karl Rinderknecht
https://doi.org/10.5840/philtheol2020328118
Another World Is Present
Rahner¡¯s Theology of the Church after Failure
Contemporary Roman Catholic considerations of church reform are often impeded by the worry that any acknowledgment of systematic or properly ecclesial failure calls Jesus¡¯s promise of the church¡¯s indefectibility into question. This makes honesty about such failure, and therefore true reform, impossible. At best, in this way of thinking, blame can be shifted onto a few ¡°bad apples.¡± Karl Rahner¡¯s engagement with a quite different problem¡ªhow Roman Catholics can account for the fruits of the Spirit in Protestant Ministries¡ªcan provide tools for a renewed ecclesiology capable of honestly reckoning with sin in and by the church.