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"Joseph Ratzinger, later Pope Benedict XVI, fundamentally shaped Christian theology in the 20th and early 21st centuries. This book surveys the major themes and topics that Ratzinger explored, and highlights aspects of the ideas that he developed in his engagement with a wide variety of intellectual and religious currents"--
List of contents
Part I. Life and Context: 1. Influences Jacob Phillips; 2. Interlocutors Nicholas J. Healy; 3. The second Vatican council and the third millennium Christopher Ruddy; Part II. Main Theme: 4. Logos and reason Pablo Blanco-Sarto; 5. Revelation Rudolf Voderholzer; 6. Scripture and tradition Matthew J. Ramage; 7. The fathers of the church José Granados; 8. God and the trinity Thomas Joseph White; 9. Creation Michael Dominic Taylor; 10. Jesus Christ Emery de Gaál; 11. Ecclesiology Maximilian Heim; 12. The Priesthood Sara Butler; 13. Liturgy Uwe Michael Lang; 14. Canon law James Bradley; 15. Eschatology Helmut Hoping; 16. Modernity and secularism Tracey Rowland; 17. Preaching Daniel Cardó; 18. The theological virtues Peter John McGregor; Part III. Dialogue and Perspectives: 19. Dialogue with orthodoxy and protestantism Kurt Cardinal Koch; 20. Dialogue with judaism and with religions Achim Buckenmaier; 21. General reception and perspectives Thomas G. Weinandy.
About the author
Daniel Cardó holds the Benedict XVI Chair of Liturgical Studies at Saint John Vianney Theological Seminary in Denver. He is the author of The Cross and the Eucharist in Early Christianity (2019), What Does it Mean to Believe? Faith in the Thought of Joseph Ratzinger (2020), and The Art of Preaching (2021).Uwe Michael Lang is an adjunct faculty member at the Institute of Theology and Liberal Arts at St Mary's University, Twickenham and Allen Hall Seminary. A priest of the Oratory of St Philip Neri in London, he is the author of The Roman Mass: From Early Christian Origins to Tridentine Reform (2022).
