Volume 35, Issue 1/2, 2023
Brett McLaughlin

Pages 105-126
https://doi.org/10.5840/philtheol2024114177
A Life of Self-Offer
Karl Rahner on the Historical Jesus
Karl Rahner wrote regularly on the topic of Christology and possessed a profoundly Incarnational theology. He nonetheless rarely acknowledges Jesus¡¯s ministry period, the miracles, or parables. This article will contend that Rahner postulates Jesus¡¯s ministry as an absolute self-offer to God, matched by God¡¯s new turn towards men and women. These novel relationships are the true foundation for the Kingdom of God, the central theme of the ministry period. Jesus¡¯s self-offer to God contains a solidarity with all men and women, as he calls them to follow and promises the same destiny.