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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Joseph Ratzinger"”.
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The Church as Sphere of Growth in Authentic Freedom: An Exploration in the Ecclesiological Writings of Joseph Ratzinger
… of this dissertation is to consider how cogently Ratzinger presents the case for the Church’s presence in the world as a liberating force for humanity. It asks: how does Ratzinger characterise the Church as a sphere beneficial to humanity’s yearning for liberation in a time when disgruntlement …
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Beyond Dialogue: Avenues Toward Christian Unity
… standstill. The ecclesiologies of Walter Kasper, Joseph Ratzinger, and Richard McBrien contribute to reinvigorating the ecumenical movement. Specifically, the place of ecumenical dialogue and an "ecumenism of life" show signs of promise. By taking contributions from each of the theologians an …
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"This Flesh Will Rise Again": Retrieving Early Christian Faith in Bodily Resurrection
… explanations of the Apostles' Creed provided by Joseph Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI), Wolfhart Pannenberg, and Hans Urs von Balthasar. The dissertation concludes with an articulation of the doctrine of bodily</p><p> resurrection intended for an audience who does not view the epistemological …
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Repetition and Mythos: Ratzinger’s Bonaventure and the Meaning of History
… a young man in the late 1950’s, future Pontiff Joseph Ratzinger opined that, when St. Bonaventure composed his Collationes in Hexaëmeron in the spring of 1273, not since St. Augustine’s De Civitate Dei contra Paganos had the world seen such a ground-breaking work on the logos of history. Indeed, …