Ratzinger's Faith: The Theology of Pope Benedict XVI PDF
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RATZINGER’S FAITH This page intentionally left blank R R ATZINGE ’S FAITH THE THEOLOGY OF POPE BENEDICT XVI TRACEY ROWLAND 1 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxfordox26dp OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. ItfurtherstheUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellenceinresearch,scholarship, andeducationbypublishingworldwidein Oxford NewYork Auckland CapeTown DaresSalaam HongKong Karachi KualaLumpur Madrid Melbourne MexicoCity Nairobi NewDelhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto WithoYcesin Argentina Austria Brazil Chile CzechRepublic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore SouthKorea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam OxfordisaregisteredtrademarkofOxfordUniversityPress intheUKandincertainothercountries PublishedintheUnitedStates byOxfordUniversityPressInc.,NewYork (cid:1)TraceyRowland2008 Themoralrightsoftheauthorhavebeenasserted DatabaserightOxfordUniversityPress(maker) Firstpublished2008 Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced, storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans, withoutthepriorpermissioninwritingofOxfordUniversityPress, orasexpresslypermittedbylaw,orundertermsagreedwiththeappropriate reprographicsrightsorganization.Enquiriesconcerningreproduction outsidethescopeoftheaboveshouldbesenttotheRightsDepartment, OxfordUniversityPress,attheaddressabove Youmustnotcirculatethisbookinanyotherbindingorcover andyoumustimposethesameconditiononanyacquirer BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Dataavailable LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Dataavailable TypesetbySPIPublisherServices,Pondicherry,India PrintedinGreatBritain onacid-freepaperby BiddlesLtd.,Lynn,Norfolk ISBN978-0-19-920740-4 13579108642 InMemoryofDorothyDavies(1912–1981) andforStuartAdairRowland Acknowledgements ThisworkwaswrittenasaguidetothethoughtofBenedictXVIfor those who are not necessarily professional theologians but who are none the less interested to follow the thought of the leader of the world’slargestChristiancommunion. Atthetimeofcompletingthemanuscripttheonlyotherworkofits typeavailableinEnglishisthatbyAidanNicholsOP,theJohnPaulII Lecturer in Roman Catholic Theology in Oxford. This work diVers from that of Father Nichols in taking a more thematic, less chrono- logical approach, but none the less I regard his work as the gold standardforthisWeld. I wish to thank my colleagues at the John Paul II Institute in Melbourne for their support for this project, especially Lieutenant- Colonel Toby Hunter and Mrs Penny Power who take care of the lion’s share of the administrative work of the Institute, Dr Nicholas Tonti-Filippini who runs the Bioethics programme, Most Rev Peter J. Elliott, a former oYcial of the PontiWcal Council for the Family (1987–1997), who heads our outWt, and our Senior Tutor, Anna Krohn. Drafts of chapters were farmed out for comment and here I am especially grateful to the following: Revd Scott Armstrong, Brian Boyle MSC, Bernard Colbert, Michael Daniel, Ellen Garrett, Fr Gregory Jordan SJ, Peter Knowles OP, Robin Koning SJ, Patrick Quirk, Alcuin Reid, Revd Anthony Robbie, Marcia Riordan, James V. Schall SJ, Owen Vyner, and Glen Tattersall FSSP. Fr Fergus Kerr OP also reviewed the manuscript for Oxford University Press and madesomeveryhelpfulsuggestions. MonicaO’Sheawasenormouslyhelpfulinchasingreferencesforme andbeingourdomesticgoddessinresidence,LouiseMitchellchecked the manuscript for stylistic errors, and Maria Klepacka helped with translations. I also beneWted from the chance to study the thought of Benedict XVI with leading European and American scholars at a colloquium acknowledgements vii entitled‘CrisisandKairos:ThePhilosophyofHistoryandtheThought of Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI’ in June 2006. The colloquium was presented in partnership by the Lumen Christi Institute of the University of Chicago and L’Institut Catholique de Paris. My thanks are due to Thomas Levergood of the Lumen Christi Institute for the invitationtoattendthecolloquiumandforsomegreatdinnersinParis andCholet. Thanksarealsoduetomyhusbandwhoproofreadthepenultimate draft and who oVered many practical and creative suggestions in the process. This work is dedicated to him and to the memory of my maternalgrandmother. The Foreword has been provided by His Eminence George Car- dinal Pell, a fellow Patron of the Australian Catholic Students’ Asso- ciation, who for ten years served Cardinal Ratzinger as a member of theCongregationfortheDoctrineoftheFaith.Mythanksaredueto His Eminence for the support he gives to our students and for his takingthetimetoreadthisworkandcontributehisownthoughts. TraceyRowland This page intentionally left blank Contents Foreword HisEminenceGeorgeCardinalPell x Introduction 1 1. RatzingerandContemporaryTheologicalCircles 17 2. GaudiumetspesandtheImportanceofChrist 30 3. Revelation,Scripture,andTradition 48 4. BeyondMoralism:GodisLove 66 5. TheStructureoftheCommunion 84 6. ModernityandthePoliticsoftheWest 105 7. LiturgysinceVaticanII 123 Conclusion 144 AppendixI. TheSubiacoAddress 156 AppendixII. TheRegensburgAddress 166 Notes 175 Bibliography 197 Index 207
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