Volume 33, Issue 1/2, 2021
Brandon R. Peterson

Pages 113-137
https://doi.org/10.5840/philtheol20221010146
Rahner and the Cross
What Kind of Atoning Story Does He Tell?
Classically, Christians have professed the saving efficacy of the cross. Does Karl Rahner? Recent commentary on Foundations of Christian Faith has described Rahner as conflating ¡°atonement¡± generally with penal substitutionary theories of a changing God, as ruling out the redemptive significance of Christ¡¯s death, and as denigrating the normativity of Scripture in order to do so. This article responds to these claims, unfolding Rahner¡¯s soteriology and arguing that he advances a theology of the cross which affirms its saving efficacy, including in the last decade of his work.