Name: Faith and the Future (Paperback)
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Author: Joseph Ratzinger
ISBN: 9781621643234

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Joseph Ratzinger

Publisher

Ignatius Press

Language

English

Pages

118

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3 x 13.3 x 0.8 cm

Weight

0.17 kg.

ISBN13

9781621643234

Synopsis "Faith and the Future (Paperback)"

Increasingly, the future is becoming a theme for theological reflection. In the background we can detect a growing concern among many people for the future of faith.How does the promise of an eternal future affect the present? How does faith, our hope for life in the future, affect the way we live and interact with the world today? In order to answer these questions, Joseph Ratzinger reflects on such questions as the following: What precisely is faith? What does it have to do with knowledge, modern philosophical trends, technology, and our modern world? What is faith's relationship to truth? And finally, what consequences do the answers to these questions have for the future of our world and our Church?The problem of the future assails not only the believer. In the ever more rapidly advancing process of technological change, man is confronted with enormous opportunities, but also with colossal perils. For him, the future is not only promising but also a possible nightmare. He cannot avoid asking what part faith can play in building tomorrow's world.Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, approaches the universal concern for the future from a variety of angles, bringing his deep personal faith and theological brilliance to bear on the serious questions facing mankind."It is precisely in times of vehement historical upheaval, when all the past seems to dissolve and completely new things seem to emerge, that men need to reflect upon history, which enables them to see the unreal exaggeration of the moment in the right perspective and integrates them again into a happening that never repeats itself but, on the other hand, never loses its unity and its context. . . . I maintain that reflection upon history, properly understood, embraces both looking back into the past and, with that as the starting point, reflecting on the possibilities and tasks of the future, which can only become clear if we survey a fairly long stretch of the road and do not naively shut ourselves up in the present." -- Joseph Ratzinger

Joseph Ratzinger

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(Marktl, 1927 - Ciudad del Vaticano, 2022) Teólogo y prelado alemán, elegido Papa de la Iglesia Católica el 19 de abril de 2005, como sucesor de Juan Pablo II. Tras cerca de ocho años de pontificado, presentó su renuncia en febrero de 2013, decisión con escasísimos precedentes en los dos mil años de historia de la Iglesia.

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