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Author QuotedKarl Rahner
Title QuotedMission and Grace: Essays in Pastoral Theology
Date (Year/Month/Day)1963/07/22
ImprintLondon / New York : Sheed & Ward. 1963
QuotationI am reading Karl Rahner's essays on grace-at least those available in translation, as I do not have time to struggle with the German. They seem clear and obvious. I sometimes wonder why Rahner is considered so dangerous. Perhaps because he is too clear and not involved in the technical mumbo jumbo that makes others unreadable. In a word: a readable theologian is dangerous.
Quotation SourceTurning Toward the World: The Pivotal Years. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 4, 1960-1963.; Edited by Victor A. Kramer. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1996, p. 342
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