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Zusatztext ‘Tracey Rowland's beautifully composed book is a masterpiece of scholarship and argument. With exceptional clarity, she shows that Pope Benedict's critique of secularism and his defense of traditional Catholicism are grounded in a symphonic synthesis - of Scripture, the living Tradition of the Church, the teachings of its Doctors and Fathers as well as a modern attention to history and culture. His Romantic Orthodoxy is key to a Christian Renaissance and the reunification of the episcopally-based Churches. As Rowland's vivid portrait reveals, Benedict's theological vision makes him one of the most significant pontiffs since the Reformation.' - Adrian Pabst, Lecturer in Politics, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. Informationen zum Autor Tracey Rowland holds the St John Paul II Chair of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, Australia and is a member of the International Theological Commission. Klappentext An upper-level introduction to the thought and theology of Pope Benedict XVI. Vorwort An upper-level introduction to the thought and theology of Pope Benedict XVI. Zusammenfassung Presents an upper-level introduction to the thought and theology of Pope Benedict XVI. This title begins with a presentation of the key ideas in the works of his intellectual antecedents and contemporary interlocutors and then moves to an account of Ratzinger's responses to a number of theological crises. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter I: The Intellectual Antecedents and Contemporary Interlocutors: Including the seminal contributions to Ratzinger's thought of: Sts. Augustine and Bonaventure, John Henry Newman, Romano Guardini, Peter Wust, Josef Pieper, Martin Buber, Theodore Häcker, Gottlieb Söhngen, Luigi Giussani, Hans Urs von Balthasar and Henri de Lubac SJ; and the works of interlocutors, Josef Rupert Geiselman, Walter Kasper, Hans Küng, and Paul Knitter. Karl Rahner fits in as both an early antecedent and an interlocutor.Chapter II: The Response to the Modernist CrisisThis will include a guide through Ratzinger's many works relating to principles of scriptural interpretation, including documents of the Pontifical Biblical Commission produced under his chairmanship,; and also to his critique of the Suarezian account of Revelation which reached its zenith in the 1960s in the Dei Verbum document of the Second Vatican Council, which Ratzinger and Karl Rahner helped to draft, and the work on Revelation and Tradition co-authored by Ratzinger and Rahner.Chapter III: The Response to HeideggerThis will include material from Ratzinger's Principles of Catholic Theology where he states that an understanding of the mediation of history in the realm of ontology is 'the fundamental crisis of our age'. It will also provide an exposition of Ratzinger's criticisms of Karl Rahner's approach to the crisis and his preference for the approach of von Balthasar. Chapter IV: The Essential Difference of ChristianityThis will cover themes in Ratzinger's seminal Introduction to Christianity (which was anything but an introduction) and more contemporary essays by Ratzinger, including his year 2000 Sorbonne Address, where he presents his understanding of what Christianity is within the context of other world religions. The controversial Regensburg Address will be covered here. Chapter V: The Response to Kasper and KüngThis will cover the criticisms of Ratzinger's ecclesiology from Walter Kasper and Hans Küng and his responses to them. The seminal importance of Augustine and de Lubac for Ratzinger's ecclesiology will be covered here. Chapter VI: The Theological Virtues Since Ratzinger became Benedict XVI he has released two encyclicals: one on love ( Deus Caritas Est 2007 ) and one on hope ( Spe Salvi 2008 ). Since faith, hope and love are treated in theology as the three theological virtues, it is anticipated that a third encycli...
