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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"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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Repetition and Mythos: Ratzinger’s Bonaventure and the Meaning of History
… 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, …
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Beyond Dialogue: Avenues Toward Christian Unity
… 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 effective …
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"This Flesh Will Rise Again": Retrieving Early Christian Faith in Bodily Resurrection
… 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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Der Dialog zwischen Glaube und Kultur und dessen Implikationen für das Gespräch über die christlichen Wurzeln Europas in den Texten Johannes Paul II. und Benedikt XVI.
… beeinflussten die Denkweise des jungen Ratzinger. Die entscheidende Frage war: Inwieweit ist das in seinen Schriften und seinem Handeln sichtbar? Und wie sieht er die Zukunft Europas? In dem zweiten Kapitel werden Grundbegriffe der Arbeit erörtert. Der erste Abschnitt bezieht sich auf …
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The Salvation of the Cosmos: Benedict XVI's Eschatology and its Relevance for the Current Ecological Crisis
<p>Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has elements of a cosmic eschatology embedded in his theological oeuvre that have not heretofore been extensively systematized. This dissertation fills this gap by contextualizing Benedict’s cosmic eschatology in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, examining his …