Hugo Rahner

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Hugo Karl Erich Rahner SJ (born May 3, 1900 in Pfullendorf , † December 21, 1968 in Munich ) was a German Jesuit , theologian and historian . He is considered a representative of a kerygmatic theology .

family

Rahner grew up in a traditionally Catholic family in Emmendingen; In 1908 the family moved to Freiburg im Breisgau. He was the third of seven children from the marriage of Karl Rahner (1868–1934), teacher seminar and grammar school professor for German, history and French, and his wife Luise, née. Trescher (1875-1976). Hugo is the brother of Elisabeth Rahner, married Cremer, and Karl Rahner SJ.

Life

After six months of military service in the Freiburg Karlskaserne at the end of the First World War , immediately after graduating from high school in 1918 at the Realgymnasium Freiburg im Breisgau, Rahner joined the Society of Jesus , the Jesuit order, on January 11, 1919 . After his philosophical studies at the religious college in Valkenburg aan de Geul , he was prefect and educator at the Jesuit high school "Stella Matutina" Feldkirch from 1923 to 1926 . From 1926 to 1931 he studied philosophy and Catholic theology at the University of Innsbruck . In 1929 he received in Pullach in Munich the ordination by the Munich Archbishop Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber . After his patristic doctorate to become Dr. theol. in Innsbruck (1931) he studied history at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn from 1931 to 1934 , a. a. with Franz Joseph Dölger , Wilhelm Levison and Wilhelm Neuss . 1934 Rahner was in Bonn on "The counterfeit papal letters from the estate of Jerome Vignier" to Dr. phil. PhD. In 1935 he completed his habilitation in Innsbruck for the subjects of ancient church history and patrology .

From 1935 he lectured at the University of Innsbruck. On March 12, 1936, he was elected Vice Rector of the Innsbruck Jesuit community. In 1937, Rahner became a full professor for church and dogma history and patrology at Innsbruck University. The abolition of the faculty by the National Socialists and the Second World War forced the Innsbruck Jesuits and the international Canisianum seminary to be relocated to Sion (Sion), Switzerland , where he lectured at the Papal Theological Faculty from 1938 to 1945. From 1940 to 1946 he gave lectures on the history of religion at the Eranos Association in Locarno , where he also met CG Jung , Mircea Eliade and Rudolf Otto .

After the faculty was re-established in Innsbruck (1945), Rahner was first dean of the theological faculty (1945/46) and finally rector of the entire university (1949/50). In 1952/53 he was again dean of the theological faculty. From 1950 to 1956 he was rector of the Canisianum College. In 1957 he is representative of the Austrian Order Province at the 30th General Congregation.

A serious illness ( Parkinson's disease ) forced his early retirement in 1963. He lived in Munich from 1966 and was buried in the cemetery of the Berchmanskolleg in Pullach .

He has published numerous articles on patrology, Ignatius research and the intellectual situation of the present. On his 60th birthday, the commemorative publication Sentire Ecclesiam was dedicated to him with 720 information on the bibliography of his printed works.

Act

Together with contemporary theologians (including his brother Karl Rahner ) he worked for a theology that is entirely at the service of preaching . He presented the relevant basic ideas in his work A Theology of Annunciation (Freiburg 1939). His church history studies examined the relationship of the church to Western humanism and the relationship between church and state in general. His investigations into the church fathers , their spirituality and the meaning of myth and symbolism of their writings and led to numerous books and lectures. His investigation into the Christian interpretation of Greek mythology opened up a new perspective on the origins of the church. Rahner has made a great contribution to the rediscovery of church symbolism. Rahner paid particular attention to the founder of the Jesuit order Ignatius of Loyola , especially in Ignatius of Loyola. Spiritual letters (Einsiedeln / Cologne 1956), Ignatius von Loyola. Correspondence with women (Freiburg 1956) and Ignatius von Loyola as a person and theologian (Freiburg 1964).

Engagement in student associations

In 1937 he became old man of the two Innsbruck Unitas clubs, Norica and Greifenstein, of which he was an honorary senior citizen. After the forced dissolution in 1938, he provided the connections with a booth in the Jesuit college. In 1954 he gave the speech at the re-establishment of the Unitas-Greifenstein. Rahner also campaigned for the readmission of other student associations at the University of Innsbruck, such as the Corps Athesia Innsbruck .

Awards

Works

  • A Theology of the Annunciation , Freiburg 1939
  • Occidental church freedom , Einsiedeln / Cologne 1943
  • Mater Ecclesia - Praise of the Church from the first millennium , Einsiedeln / Cologne 1944
  • Assumption of Mary and the priesthood , Innsbruck 1951
  • Mary and the Church. Ten chapters on spiritual life , Innsbruck 1951
  • Church and State in Early Christianity , Munich 1951
  • The playing person , Einsiedeln 1952
  • Church symbols , Salzburg 1954
  • The Church - God's power in human weakness , Freiburg 1956
  • Ignatius of Loyola. Spiritual letters , Einsiedeln / Cologne 1956
  • Ignatius of Loyola. Correspondence with women , Freiburg 1956
  • Greek myths in Christian interpretation , Zurich 1957 / Basel 1984
  • The meaning of history - personality and history , Kevelaer 1959
  • Ascension of the Church , Freiburg 1961
  • Ignatius von Loyola as a person and theologian / Hugo Rahner. - Freiburg [u. a.]: Herder, 1964
  • Abendland , Freiburg 1966

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Entry about Hugo Rahner on LEO-BW, accessed January 4, 2012
  2. ^ Pedagogy and didactics of the ages by Franz Weigl; Ludwig Battista; Anton Heinen; Elisabeth Rahner; Maria Montessori; Published by Kösel & Pustet, Munich, 1931–1934
  3. ^ Family and Small Child Education , by Anton Heinen; Elisabeth Rahner; Maria Montessori, Verlag Kösel & Pustet, 1934
  4. ↑ The thought of the training of mothers in its development from Comenius to the present. Dissertation Elisabeth Rahner, 1936
  5. ↑ a b Otto Syre SJ: Entry on Rahner Hugo , Calendar of the Society of Jesus, accessed on January 4, 2012
  6. ^ Entry on Rahner Hugo , Fuge - Journal für Religion und Moderne, accessed on January 4, 2012
  7. ^ Corps Athesia. Reconstitution 1951 to suspension 1981

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personal data
SURNAME Rahner, Hugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rahner, Hugo Karl Erich (birth name); Rahner SJ, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Jesuit, theologian and historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1968
Place of death Munich