Hugo Rahner und die Eranos-Tagungen: Ein kastalischer Mensch, ein christlicher Humanist, ein ignatianischer Verkündigungstheologe

Hugo Rahner was a man of his time and not free of ambivalences and contradictions. With his participation in the Eranos-Conferences he sought dialogue with religious scientists and philosophers, anthropologists and depth psychologists – despite the reservations of the anti-modernists within his own ranks. But with his ecclesiology of ›only Christianity‹, ›only the church‹, ›only the Christian‹ and ›only the theology‹ he remained attached to the triumphalistic self-understanding of Neuscholasticism and Ultramontanism with the church as societas perfecta and mater et magistra of the peoples, which he underpinned with his exuberant symbol theology and his ›selective‹ citations from the Church-Fathers.