One of Ratzinger’s best and deepest books is The Nature and Mission of Theology, a collection of essays from the 80s.
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August 10, 2010 at 5:18 am
[...] you go to Google Books, find The Mission and Nature of Theology, and perform a word search for “missionary”, you will find many of the texts I have [...]
August 17, 2010 at 2:32 am
[...] Posted by professorholmes under Uncategorized Leave a Comment Ratzinger’s The Nature and Mission of Theology is one of his best books, if not his very best. In Salt of the Earth (pgs 66-67), commenting on [...]
August 18, 2010 at 2:37 am
[...] professorholmes under Uncategorized Leave a Comment One particularly impressive section of The Nature and Mission of Theology is the chapter on “The Spiritual Basis and Ecclesial Identity of Theology.” There he [...]
August 18, 2010 at 5:46 pm
[...] Posted by professorholmes under Uncategorized Leave a Comment In the same section of The Nature and Mission of Theology that I mentioned in my last post, Ratzinger develops a neat argument about why theology needs the [...]