The transcendental immediacy of God: Reflections on Anonymous Christianity

The question of whether justification exists outside explicit Christian confession has preoccupied the Church for centuries. Whilst the Church has answered this question in the affirmative, at least since the Second Vatican Council, the exclusivity of Jesus Christ as the sole saviour remains beyond dispute. But how does grace, as it has become historical, relate to the grace inherent in every human being? Drawing on Karl Rahner's theory of anonymous Christianity and the premises of a transcendental Christology, this paper explores the extent to which the objectivity of salvation can be claimed and actualised for every human being. This is done on the basis of a transcendental immediacy which finds Christological mediation in the supernatural existence of the human being.

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