Karl Rahner

The Reverend Karl Rahner SJ
Portrait of Rahner by L. M. Cremer
Born	(1904-03-05)5 March 1904 Freiburg im Breisgau, Grand Duchy of Baden, German Empire
Died	30 March 1984(1984-03-30) (aged 80) Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria
Alma mater	University of Freiburg University of Innsbruck
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Transcendental Thomism
Main interests	Christology Trinity faith
Notable ideas	Anonymous Christian, Economic Trinity and Immanent Trinity, Supernatural Existential, Everyday Mysticism, God's Self-Communication

Karl Rahner SJ (5 March 1904 – 30 March 1984) was a German 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 theologians of the 20th century. He was the brother of Hugo Rahner, also a Jesuit scholar.

Rahner was born in Freiburg, at the time a part of the Grand Duchy of Baden, a state of the German Empire; he died in Innsbruck, Austria.

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 Second Vatican Council was influenced by Rahner's theology and his understanding of Catholic faith.^[2]