Can We Know God Directly? Rahner's Solution from Experience

Being in the Face of Nameless Mystery: Levinas and the Trace of Doctrine

“…6 In assessing Rahner's doctrine of God, Paul Molnar levels a similar accusation: Rahner's philosophical theology reduces God to no more than the expression of the human experience of finitude, to 'man's relationship to himself and not to God'. 7 Rahner's presupposition that the human person has an awareness or 'direct knowledge of God' is based on ontological necessities 8 compromising God's transcendence and reducing God to nothing but 'the content of man's experience of the absolute, conceived philosophically'. 9 Rahner's 'use of metaphysics to support the Church's living faith' contradicts both Scripture and tradition to the extent that he attempts 'to reach the true God via metaphysics first and then by revelation'.…”

‘n Pneumatologiese benadering tot die teologie

“…Dit beteken 'n basiese keuse tussen die objek van die filosofie, die 'syn' in die algemeen; en teologiese nadenke, die drie-enige God wat enige filosofiese nadenke te bowe gaan. Hy meen Rahner poog om die vryheid van God se openbaring te probeer handhaaf, tog trek hy 'n streep daardeur omdat hy nie bereid is om hierdie basiese keuse te maak nie (Molnar, P D 1985, Can we know God directly" Rahner's solution from experience, in Theological studies, 46, 228v).…”