Our Lady and the Church is one of the great works of twentieth-century theology—a profound meditation on the riches to be found in the writings of the Early Church Fathers about Mary. Filles with richly poetic, sometimes startling imagery, Our Lady and the Church is the rare book that appeals with equal power to both the mind and the heart.

Our Lady And The Church

Religion & Spirituality

Rahner S.J., Hugo

Bullough, Sebastian

Christian Books & Bibles

Zaccheus Press

Man at Play is a theological and religious interpretation of play and its place in culture and society. Hugo Rahner examines play as a means of participation in the life of God himself—an activity which is both serious and joyous. Appreciating the complexity of the fallen world, Rahner does not shy away from the role of tragedy in the human experience, nor does he subscribe to a belittling or superficial view of the Christian who must “become like a child.” Instead, aided by the teachings of the Church Fathers and other theologians, philosophers, and poets, Rahner lucidly locates the play of nature within the play of grace.Finding inspiration from Huizinga, Buytendijk, and von Kujawa, Rahner both develops and complements their work with his rich understanding of antiquity and Catholic theology. Spontaneous and insightful, Man at Play is a book worth many happy returns.

Man at Play

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Cluny Media, LLC

Our Lady and the Church, first published in English shortly after the declaration of the dogma of the Assumption, is a testament to the breadth and depth of Hugo Rahner’s Mariology. The dogma of the Assumption, for Rahner, raises two questions: First, what is the precise place of the dogma in the body of Catholic teaching? Second, what is its significance for the development of the spiritual life? The answer to these questions lies in resolving the apparent—but not actual—contradiction between the place of the sacraments and the liturgy and the role of Mary the Mother of God in the Christian life. The humble life of the Virgin Mary is the stage for the Incarnation of the Son of God and his founding of the one, holy, catholic, apostolic Church. In eleven visionary chapters, Rahner weaves the wisdom of the Church Fathers with his own insights to show the unity of Mary and the Church and the effects of that relationship on the spiritual life of every Christian.

Our Lady and the Church

“What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?” Tertullian famously asked. In Greek Myths and Christian Mystery, Hugo Rahner, S.J., offers an illuminating response in terms of anthropology, of what it means to be imago dei. For the Greeks, mythology operated as the primary factor in the development of their culture. Then, through Christ, arrives “the turning-point of human civilization; God spoke his revelation into the world of the Greek spirit… That is why the Church will continue to speak Greek even if, in a world that is dead to the things of the mind, Hellas descend into the abyss of utter oblivion.” Eschewing reductive extremes of analysis, Rahner shows how the early Church received, interpreted, and corrected the Greek mysteries. Part One explores the mystery of the Cross, Baptism, and the sun-and-moon mythos; Part Two delves into the interplay of psychagogy and botany; and Part Three examines the rich symbolism which the Church Fathers derived from the Odyssey. 
The myths of the Greeks laid bare the human soul; only the Church, as Rahner writes at the close of his Preface, “through the light of the Logos, knows the measure of the heights and depths of the human soul.” At the juncture of myth and mystery, then, does the answer to Tertullian’s query come to light.

Greek Myths and Christian Mystery

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Cluny Media

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