Kant Today: A Survey

Erich Przywara was a major German Catholic theologian who stood at the fountainhead of the Communio movement. Karl Barth, the greatest Protestant theologian of the last century, described Przywara as “the giant Goliath incarnate” in comparison with whom all his other opponents were “dwarfs.” Hans Urs von Balthasar said that Przywara was “the greatest spirit” he ever knew, whose “profundity and breadth is without comparison in our time.” Karl Rahner said, “For the Catholics of Germany in the twenties, thirties, and forties [Przywara] was considered one of the greatest minds. He had a great influence on all of us when we were young.” In 1980, John Paul II declared Przywara to be one of the great theologians of the German Catholic tradition, along with Albert the Great, Nicholas of Cusa, Johann Adam Möhler, Matthias Scheeben, and Romano Guardini, “who have enriched and continue to enrich not merely the Church in Germany, but the theology and life of the entire Church.” This book offers, for the first time in English, a translation of Kant Today, one of Przywara’s forgotten texts. Read more