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16 - Modernity and Secularism

from Part II - Main Themes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2024

By
Tracey Rowland
Edited by
Daniel Cardó  and
Uwe Michael Lang
Daniel Cardó
Affiliation:
St. John Theological Seminary, Denver
Uwe Michael Lang
Affiliation:
St Mary's University, London
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Summary

Chapter 16 surveys Ratzinger’s understanding of modernity in relation to Christian revelation and his proposals for an intelligent engagement of the Gospel with today’s society.

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The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Ratzinger , pp. 262 - 279
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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Further Reading

Agbaw-Ebai, Maurice Ashley, Light of Reason, Light of Faith: Joseph Ratzinger and the German Enlightenment (South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press, 2021).Google Scholar
De Gaál, Emery, The Theology of Pope Benedict XVI: The Christocentric Shift (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).Google Scholar
MacGregor, Peter John, Heart to Heart: The Spiritual Christology of Joseph Ratzinger (Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2016).Google Scholar
Schall, James V., The Regensburg Lecture (South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press, 2007).Google Scholar

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