RT Article
T1 From Luminosity to Love: Metaphysics and Empathy in Hearer of the Word
JF Theological studies
VO 82
IS 3
SP 440
OP 463
A1 Duns, Ryan G.
LA English
PB Sage Publ.
YR 2021
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1769619968
AB Can a metaphysical argument for God’s existence warrant affirming not only that God is but that God is, and creates out of, love? In Hearer of the Word, Karl Rahner makes such an argument. After reaffirming the distinctively metaphysical character of Rahner’s philosophy of religion, the article revisits his cosmological argument’s attempt to ground the intelligibility of being in God’s love. Drawing on the work of Edith Stein, I identify an implicit “empathic logic” at work in Rahner’s metaphysics, a logic that enables him to recognize the givenness and intelligibility of creation as an expression of God’s love.
K1 Theological Anthropology
K1 Edith Stein
K1 Karl Rahner
K1 Metaphysics
K1 Empathy
DO 10.1177/00405639211035149