Abstract
Summary This article deals with two fundamental questions of christian anthropology: in what way does a christian anthropology conceive man in his relationship to the world?, and how does it demonstrate that God is present in the heart of this human existence and is its foundation? These two questions are discussed in the light of the relation between freedom and power in Rahner's theological anthropology. His ideas serve as a starting-point for a confrontation with contemporary philosophical insights in this matter. According to Rahner, freedom of man as a created, finite spirit appears in the movement of transcendence of both knowing (transcendence of sensibility) and willing (transcendence of the particular good). As transcendence of particularity freedom implies selfpossession. Being absolute being and absolute goodness, God appears as the horizon of freedom (the ‘whereto’) and therefore He is also its foundation. Besides self-possession freedom is also self-acting. Man has always the possibility of s...
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