Although Introduction to Christianity was originally printed in 1968, I have the Ignatius Press edition from 2000 which includes a new preface by Cardinal Ratzinger.

8 Responses to “(1968) Introduction to Christianity”


  1. [...] Leave a Comment  Among all of Ratzinger’s works, I am most looking forward to his Introduction to Christianity.  Any attempt to comment on the Apostle’s Creed is bound to expose the scope and themes of an [...]


  2. [...] under Uncategorized Leave a Comment  In a fresh rendering of an old idea, Ratzinger’s Introduction to Christianity describes the intelligibility of the world as a “being-thought” of things.  The fact that we [...]


  3. [...] under Uncategorized Leave a Comment  As a minor footnote to the past few posts on the Introduction to Christianity, I should note that the Ratzinger of 1968 does not know Aristotle well.  For example, he says on [...]


  4. [...] 288-291 of the Introduction to Christianity maintain the same thesis, so it will be interesting to track this theme moving forward through his [...]


  5. [...] professorholmes under Uncategorized Leave a Comment  At long last, I finished Ratzinger’s Introduction to Christianity, the longest of the volumes I will read on this year’s trek.  So that was Ratzinger in [...]


  6. [...] talks about Mary in his Introduction to Christianity (271-280), and there he footnotes a book by L. Deiss called Maria, Tochter Zion.  Strangely, [...]


  7. [...] Posted by professorholmes under Uncategorized Leave a Comment  Both in his Introduction to Christianity (pg. 280) and in Daughter Zion (pg. 9) Ratzinger offers as a criticism that Marian devotion is [...]


  8. [...] has been rough going.  The papers from the seventies read a lot like his earlier work in the Introduction to Christianity, which I find not as clear as some of his later writing.  Moreover, the essays constituting [...]

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