God and human beings

Abstract

Anthropology was an important topic in Roman Catholic theology in the second half of the 20th century. Roman Catholic anthropology is above all theological; the theology of religions is based on a theological anthropology in which human beings created in the image of God stand at the centre and as the object of his love. The major architect of this tanthropological turnt in theology was Karl Rahner. Rahnerian theology is to formulate Christology as a self-transcendent anthropology, and that anthropology in its turn as a deficient Christology. One of the consequences of the anthropological turn is that all humanity becomes a shared unity, with its joys and sorrows. Universal natural law was an important point of contact in Roman Catholic theology between Christians and non-Christians already in the 1960s. In Roman Catholic theology there is an interrelation between theological anthropology and Christology, which is its culmination.Keywords: anthropological turn; anthropology; Christians; God; human beings; Karl Rahner; non-Christians; Rahnerian theology; Roman Catholic theology; universal natural law