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Document Details : Title: Die Schwierigkeiten Karl Rahners mit dem Heiligen Offizium in der Endphase des Pontifikats von Pius XII. (1953-1957) Author(s): ARNOLD, Claus Journal: Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses Volume: 100 Issue: 3-4 Date: 2024 Pages: 553-579 DOI: 10.2143/ETL.100.3.3293826 Abstract : The difficulties that Karl Rahner experienced with the Holy Office between 1953 and 1957 can now be reconstructed from the material in the archives of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith. Rahner’s critics in the Holy Office were mainly the Jesuits Franz Hürth, Sebastiaan Tromp and Augustin Bea, who were anxious to curb the ambitions of their 'extravagant' confrere, while the Jesuit General Jean Baptiste Janssens tried to protect Rahner. All in all, and largely for reasons of contingency, Rahner got off lightly with a monitum, although he was directly targeted by Pius XII himself. The spectre of a dangerous 'new theology' in the German-speaking world, allegedly propagated jointly by Karl Adam, Romano Guardini and Karl Rahner, which was conjured up in the Holy Office, remained without an effective response in the final phase of Pius XII’s pontificate. |
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