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A wide-ranging and well-balanced point of entry for anyone seeking a deeper engagement with the teachings of Pope Benedict XVI.
The Pope Benedict XVI Reader
Foreword by Bishop Robert Barron
Word on Fire Institute | April 16, 2021
Hardcover | 384 Pages | 6"x9"
2023 Award Winner by the Catholic Media Association!
This wide-ranging collection draws together some of the finest excerpts from Ratzinger’s books, interviews, speeches, audiences, and homilies, with insights on a variety of topics, including the Trinity, the person of Jesus Christ, the Church, Mary and the saints, the Bible, the liturgy, prayer, the Second Vatican Council, and the challenge of living the faith in the modern world.
This wide-ranging collection draws together some of the finest excerpts from Ratzinger’s books, interviews, speeches, audiences, and homilies, with insights on a variety of topics, including the Trinity, the person of Jesus Christ, the Church, Mary and the saints, the Bible, the liturgy, prayer, the Second Vatican Council, and the challenge of living the faith in the modern world.
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Contents

Contents

FOREWORD by Bishop Robert Barron

CHRONOLOGY OF THE LIFE OF JOSEPH RATZINGER

PART I - LIFE
Chapter 1: Early Childhood and Vocation
Chapter 2: The Young Professor
Chapter 3: A Peritus at Vatican II
Chapter 4: Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
Chapter 5: Habemus Papem
Chapter 6: The Resignation

PART II - GOD
Chapter 7: Prolegomena on the Subject of God
Chapter 8: The Essential Matter
Chapter 9: One God in Three Persons

PART III - JESUS CHRIST
Chapter 10: Jesus Christ - The Incarnate Love of God
Chapter 11: The Birth of Jesus
Chapter 12: Jesus on the Cross
Chapter 13: The Resurrection
Chapter 14: Eschatology - The True Shape of Christian Hope

PART IV - THE CHURCH
Chapter 15: The Holy, Catholic Church
Chapter 16: The Church in the Third Millennium
Chapter 17: Remaining in the Church
Chapter 18: Christianity and the World Religions

PART V - THE SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL
Chapter 19: A Council to Be Rediscovered
Chapter 20: The Meaning of Subsistit In
Chapter 21: The Hermeneutic of Continuity

PART VI - THE BIBLE
Chapter 22: The Limits of the Historical Critical Method
Chapter 23: The Senses of Scripture
Chapter 24: Lectio Divina
PART VII - LITURGY, THE SACRAMENTS, AND THE PRIESTHOOD
Chapter 25: Liturgy and Life - The Place of the Liturgy in Reality
Chapter 26: The Eucharist and the Sacraments of Mission
Chapter 27: On Being a Priest

PART VIII - MARY
Chapter 28: The Place of Mariology in the Bible
Chapter 29: The Mother of God
Chapter 30: The Faith of Mary

PART IX - THE CHURCH FATHERS
Chapter 31: St. Clement of Rome
Chapter 32: St. Ignatius of Antioch
Chapter 33: St. Justin Martyr
Chapter 34: St. Irenaeus of Lyons
Chapter 35: Origen of Alexandria
Chapter 36: St. Athanasius
Chapter 37: St. Basil
Chapter 38: St. Gregory Nazianzus
Chapter 39: St. John Chrysostom
Chapter 40: St. Hilary of Poitiers
Chapter 41: St. Ambrose
Chapter 42: St. Jerome
Chapter 43: St. Augustine
Chapter 44: St. Leo the Great
Chapter 45: St. Benedict
Chapter 46: St. Gregory the Great

PART X - PRAYER
Chapter 47: Prayer and the Natural Desire for God
Chapter 48: Prayer and the Holy Spirit
Chapter 49: The Nature of Christian Prayer

PART XI - FAITH IN THE MODERN WORLD
Chapter 50: The Dictatorship of Relativism
Chapter 51: The Two Levels of Conscience
Chapter 52: The Problem of Practical Atheism
Chapter 53: Defending the Rationality of Faith
Chapter 54: The Development of Peoples and Technology

  About the Author

  About the Author


 

Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) was born in Bavaria, Germany, in 1927. He served as pope of the Catholic Church from April 19, 2005, to February 28, 2013. A prolific author, theologian, and university professor, Ratzinger participated in the Second Vatican Council as a theological advisor. He was named Archbishop of Munich and Freising in 1977 and was created a cardinal by Pope Paul VI later that same year. In 1981, Pope John Paul II called him to Rome to lead the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, where he served for twenty-four years until his election to the papacy. He is widely recognized as one of the most brilliant theologians and spiritual leaders in recent history.
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