Editing Karl Rahner (section)

{{short description|German Catholic theologian}}
{{Use British English|date=November 2012}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2021}}
{{Infobox philosopher
|honorific_prefix = [[The Reverend]]
|name             = Karl Rahner
|honorific_suffix = [[Society of Jesus|SJ]]
|image            = Karl Rahner by Letizia Mancino Cremer.jpg
|caption          = Portrait of Rahner by L. M. Cremer
|region           = [[Western philosophy]]
|era              = [[20th-century philosophy]]
|birth_date       = {{birth date|1904|3|5|df=y}}
|birth_place      = [[Freiburg im Breisgau]], [[Grand Duchy of Baden]], [[German Empire]]
|death_date       = {{Death date and age|1984|3|30|1904|3|5|df=y}}
|death_place      = [[Innsbruck]], [[Tyrol (state)|Tyrol]], Austria
|alma_mater       = {{unbulleted list | [[University of Freiburg]] | [[University of Innsbruck]]}}
|school_tradition = [[Transcendental Thomism]]
|notable_ideas    = [[Anonymous Christian]], Economic Trinity and Immanent Trinity, Supernatural Existential,
 Everyday Mysticism, God's Self-Communication
|main_interests   = {{hlist | [[Christology]] | [[Trinity]] | [[faith]]}}
|influences       = {{flatlist|
* [[Heidegger]]
* [[Aquinas]]
* [[Augustine]]
* [[Feuerbach]]
* [[Ignatius of Loyola]]
* [[Origen]]
* [[Kant]]
* [[Przywara]]
* [[Joseph Maréchal|Maréchal]]
* [[Neo-Thomism]]
}}
|influenced       = {{flatlist|
* [[Francis A. Sullivan]]
* [[Johann Baptist Metz]]
* [[Jon Sobrino]]
* [[Kathryn Tanner]]{{sfn|Carbine|Koster|2015|p=xxix}}
* [[Tomas Halik]]
* [[Catherine LaCugna]]
* [[Herbert Vorgrimler]]
* [[Karl Lehmann]]
}}
}}

'''Karl Rahner''' {{post-nominals|post-noms=[[Society of Jesus|SJ]]}} (5 March 1904&nbsp;– 30 March 1984) was a German [[Jesuits|Jesuit]] priest and [[theologian]] who, alongside [[Henri de Lubac]], [[Hans Urs von Balthasar]], and [[Yves Congar]], is considered to be one of the most influential [[Catholic theology|Catholic theologians]] of the 20th century. He was the brother of [[Hugo Rahner]], also a Jesuit scholar.

Before the [[Second Vatican Council]], Rahner worked alongside [[Yves Congar]], [[Henri de Lubac]], and [[Marie-Dominique Chenu]], theologians associated with the emerging school of theological thought known as [[Nouvelle théologie]]. The Council was influenced by Rahner's theology and his understanding of Catholic faith.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Marmion |first1=Declan |title=Karl Rahner, Vatican II, and the Shape of the Church |journal=Theological Studies |date=March 2017 |volume=78 |issue=1 |pages=25–48 |doi=10.1177/0040563916681992 }}</ref>