Pluralismul religios ca provocare şi şansă în viziunea lui Karl Rahner
Religious pluralism as challenge and chance, in Karl Rahner’s view

Summary/Abstract: The issue of pluralism – with all its range of accompanying issues – has entered the Romanian vocabulary of culture and theology particularly after the change of historical and social paradigm brought about by the December-1989 events. In this “brave new world”, the “expertise” on pluralism and the solutions proposed by Rahner for the Christians’ salvific cohabitation with a pluralist world might be a set of useful guidelines, without, however, being a canonical one. Such guidelines may be necessary in order to avoid, on the one hand, the defeatism and ghettoization of Christianity, and, on the other hand, a corrosive religious syncretism. To the famous Jesuite theologian Karl Rahner (1904-1984), considered the most influential Catholic theologian of the 20th century, religious diversity was never an abstract theological topic, but a reality of the world he lived in. While often meeting and confronting people with other faiths, Rahner knew how to respond with a Catholicism “open” to the challenges of religious pluralism. His writings on this topic gained a wide audience in the ‘60s and 70’s of the last century, and his thinking enjoyed a wide publicity, both in the Church (through sermons) and in the media (through conferences and radio programs).

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