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Throughout his prodigious theological and ecclesiastical career, Joseph Ratzinger advanced a rich and nuanced theology of Revelation, reflecting at length on the nature, unity, and interrelationship of Scripture and Tradition, on their native ecclesial context, and on their transformative, Christ-centred purpose and aim.
Ratzinger's many writings in this area are marked not only by an unwavering fidelity to divinely revealed truth, but also by sensitivity to the difficulties of its interpretation, to the dynamics of historical progress and regress, and to the needs of the Church and the world within the modern era.
In this book, Mauro Gagliardi offers a penetrating diachronic study of Ratzinger's thought on these foundational themes. Beginning with his 1955 Habilitationsschrift on St. Bonaventure's understanding of Revelation and continuing in his works of the conciliar and post-conciliar periods through those of his episcopacy and later pontificate, Gagliardi traces Ratzinger's vision of Scripture and Tradition, of the Magisterium and theology, and of faith and its transmission today.
By turns critical and appreciative, Gagliardi elucidates the German theologian's teaching on Revelation in depth, exploring its underlying hermeneutic commitments, and, in the book's final chapter, elaborating its implications for the question of the development of doctrine, a topic of both longstanding and pressing importance within Catholic theology and Christian thought.
Contents
Abbreviations xiii
Foreword xv
Foreword to the Present Edition xix
1. Ratzinger's Habilitationsschrift 1
2. The Council Years 21
3. Ratzinger's Postconciliar Period Writings 33
3.1 Revelation and Tradition 34
3.2 The Commentary on Dei Verbum 37
4. The Writings of Ratzinger's Maturity 41
4.1 Introduction to Christianity 41
4.2 "The Problem of the History of Dogmas" 44
4.3 "The Historicity of Dogmas" 46
4.4 "The Importance of the Fathers for Theology" 48
5. The Publications during Ratzinger's Bishopric 53
5.1 "Experience and Faith" 55
5.2 "Faith, Philosophy, and Theology" 59
5.3 "The Church as an Essential
Dimension of Theology" 62
5.4 "Pluralism as a Problem" 66
5.5 "The Ecclesial Vocation of the Theologian" 72
6. Ratzinger's Perspective on Hermeneutics 77
6.1 The "Skopós" of Scripture 77
6.2 Dogma and Preaching 80
6.3 In the Beginning . . . 84
6.4 Behold the Pierced One 87
6.5 Jesus of Nazareth 91
6.6 "Biblical Interpretation in Crisis" 98
6.7 Concluding Observations 109
7. Reflections on Doctrinal Development 117
Appendix
A Text by Joseph Ratzinger on Synodal Structures 157
Afterword
Benedict XVI: My Spiritual Testament 163
Bibliography 167
