Karl Rahner - How to Celebrate Christmas

Karl Rahner (1904-1984) was one of the most influential Catholic
philosophers and theologians of the mid to late twentieth
century. A member of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) and a Roman
Catholic priest, Rahner, as was the custom of the time, studied
scholastic philosophy, Rahner's philosophy posited that the
dynamic thrust of the knowing mind understands the
being-most-irreducible as God and the unity of being and spirit
in knowing. The Absolute or God is implicitly and intrinsically
affirmed in the dynamic of every act of knowing. Rahner
maintained that the fulfillment of human existence consists in
receiving God's self-communication, and that the human being is
actually constituted by this divine self-communication. He
identifies grace with the self-communication of God. For Rahner,
the human being is intrinsically open to God or the Absolute. It
is necessarily the receptacle of revelation. In Rahner’s view,
even if God or the Absolute remains utterly silent and completely
hidden that silence and hiddenness, are, in fact, revelations.
Revelation, however, does not resolve the Mystery; it increases
cognizance of God's incomprehensibility. Experiences of the
mystery of themselves point people to the Absolute Mystery, "an
always-ever-greater Mystery." https://iep.utm.edu/rahner/
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