How helpful and persuasive do you find Karl Rahners idea of an anonymous Christian?
Karl Rahner’s work is a majestic attempt to hold together two dialectical positions common in the inclusivist position. The inclusivist holds that Christianity is the absolute religion (or Christ is the means or mechanism of salvation) and thereby normative (in effect and essence) but also that salvation, due to God’s universal will to save, is available to others outside Christianity due to historical placement or circumstance. Rahner’s ‘anonymous Christian’ states that a faithful adherent to another world faith is saved by accepting what grace is manifest in that religion, transferred by the merits of Christ. In accepting the indigenous faith environment, regardless of its total relation to Christian revelation, the follower is accepting the proffered grace of God therein and thus the ‘terms’ of Christianity’s by grace alone. Two major assumptions operate in Rahner’s exposition. First, Rahner is employing a theological understanding of God’s relationship to the creation that stresses
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