(1968) Introduction to Christianity

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. Ratzinger on faith « A Year with Ratzinger Says:

    January 17, 2010 at 6:38 pm

    […] 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 […]

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  2. God and the scientists « A Year with Ratzinger Says:

    January 24, 2010 at 5:08 pm

    […] 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 […]

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  3. Ratzinger and Aristotle « A Year with Ratzinger Says:

    January 26, 2010 at 12:36 pm

    […] 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 […]

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  4. Sacrifice and pain « A Year with Ratzinger Says:

    February 2, 2010 at 4:58 am

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

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  5. I have now been introduced to Christianity « A Year with Ratzinger Says:

    February 7, 2010 at 5:53 am

    […] 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 […]

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  6. A first donation to this blog « A Year with Ratzinger Says:

    February 8, 2010 at 6:27 am

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

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  7. Christ before me, Christ behind me…. « A Year with Ratzinger Says:

    February 10, 2010 at 6:59 pm

    […] 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 […]

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  8. Tradition and human nature « A Year with Ratzinger Says:

    June 4, 2010 at 5:59 pm

    […] 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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