Theology, Empowerment, and Prison Ministry

Karl Rahner and the Contemporary Exploration for Meaning

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In Theology, Empowerment, and Prison Ministry Meins G.S. Coetsier offers a new scholarly account of Karl Rahner’s theological anthropology and the prison pastorate with a contemporary expansion for meaning, seeking an antidote to the suffering and isolation of those incarcerated with a “theology of empowerment.” Drawing on prison ministry theorists and practitioners, and on the experiences of Viktor Frankl, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Etty Hillesum, the book argues that Rahner’s views on prison ministry are significant and encouraging but limited regarding the needs and demands of 21st-century prison ministry. In a convincing, perceptive, and groundbreaking study, Coetsier goes beyond Rahner with ecumenical and interreligious perspectives, reminding us all of our human dignity, of meaning and transformation, of our liberation, creativity, hope and community.
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2022
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Meins G.S. Coetsier, Ph.D. (2008) in Philosophy; Ph.D. (2012) in Comparative Science of Cultures, Ghent University; Ph.D. (2021) in Theology, Trinity College Dublin, is visiting scholar at the Loyola Institute and an ordained deacon and prison chaplain. He is author of The Existential Philosophy of Etty Hillesum (Brill, 2014).
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations

Introduction

1 Karl Rahner’s Anthropology and Gaudium et Spes
 Introduction
 1 Karl Rahner’s Theological Anthropology
 2 Anthropology of Gaudium et Spes
 3 Anonymous Christianity
 Conclusion

2 Karl Rahner on the Prison Pastorate
 Introduction
 1 Finding Christ in Prisoners (Christus in den Gefangenen)
 2 Finding Ourselves in the Prisoners
 3 The Hidden Truth of Our Own Situation
 Conclusion

3 Rahner’s Limitations – Responses and Challenges
 Introduction
 1 Where Rahner’s Anthropology and “The Prison Pastorate” Fall Short
 2 Response to Rahner’s Limitations
 3 Two Further Questions
 Conclusion

4 Rahner’s Edges – Incarceration from a Prisoner’s Perspective
 Introduction
 1 The Will to Meaning
 2 Three Mental Stages
 3 Prison Perspectives
 Conclusion

5 Beyond Rahner – Towards a Theology of Prison Ministry
 Introduction
 1 The Situation of Prisoners Today
 2 The Need for a Theology of Empowerment
 3 Elements of a Theology of Empowerment (Theologie der Stärkung)
 Conclusion

Conclusion
Chronology
Bibliography
Plates
Index
All interested in Christianity, Practical Theology, Karl Rahner studies, Prison Ministry, Carceral studies, Spirituality, Diaconate, Religious Studies, Social justice and Peace Studies, as well as psychologists, philosophers, theologians and ecumenists.
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