Rahner is the world's leading methodical theologian. Into the final volume of his Writings he has put a number of carefully presented pieces on almost all the more controversial matters which confront the Roman Catholic Church, and most other Churches as well. What is the real basis for a Church at all? How is a Christianity based on faith truly at home in a Church? Women and the priesthood; the freedom of the individual; the future structure of the church; Rahner's own personal dream of the future unified Church told as a story of how a group of churchmen in Rome accept the authority of a Pope very different from the authority of the papacy as it is, the unity of mankid, transcendence these and others are the leading topics of a volume of exceptional importance coming as it does from Karl Rahner SJ.