Aidan Nichols' timely book is the first full-scale investigation of Joseph Ratzinger's theology in its development from the 1950s to the present day. It presents a chronological account of the development of Ratzinger's writing which reflects a wide range of historical and theoretical interests such as: Augustine's ecclesiology; early Franciscanism and the idea of salvation history; Christian brotherhood; the unfolding of the Second Vatican Council; commenting on the Apostles' Creed; explorations of the concept of the Church; preaching, liturgy and Church music; eschatology; the foundations of dogmatic and moral theology; the Church and politics; ecumenism, and the problem of pluralism. This book is a comprehensive introduction to a figure who is in his own right, quite apart from his significance in the politics of the Church, a major German Catholic theologian of the twentieth century.
- ISBN10 086012407X
- ISBN13 9780860124078
- Publish Date 15 May 2005
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 June 2016
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Digital)
- Imprint Burns & Oates Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 352
- Language English