Ratzinger: Apologetics for (not only) Our Time
By (author) Krzysztof Kaucha Series edited by Adam Kubiś Series edited by Nicholas Adams Series edited by Marek Jagodziński Series edited by Pawel Mąkosa Consultant editor Pawel Mąkosa Consultant editor Zdzisław Kijas Consultant editor Juan Luis Lorda Consultant editor David Fagerberg Consultant editor Klaus Baumann Consultant editor Carl-Maria Sultana Consultant editor Ilaria Ramelli Consultant editor Łukasz Popko Consultant editor Dalia Marx
Hardback (Published)
(June 2024)
ISBN: 9783525500750
6.34 x 9.25 inches
Price: $138.00
In stock
Catholic fundamental theology-officially responsible for defending faith on behalf of the Catholic Churchis aware of being in crisis: crisis of identity, content, and popularity. It needs a new overall structure, a new point of departure, and a new “spirit.” This was offered by Joseph Ratzinger, Krzysztof Kaucha declares. Almost everything that has been recently used to undermine the Christian faith and Christianity is used by Ratzinger to defend Christianity. Kaucha offers over a dozen arguments for Christianity based on Ratzinger’s writings (and his original thinking): the Christian axiom as an argument for Christianity, Jesus Christ as the proof of the existence of God, Divine Revelation as an unending proof of God’s existence, the alternative argument, the argument from definitive novelty, the argument from the absence of someone greater than Jesus, argument from truth, the anthropological argument, the argument from forgiveness, the argument “from reason”, the argument from faith, Ratzinger’s wager (in analogy to the famous Pascal’s wager), the argument from the whole truth (many times very painful for Christians) about Christianity, the argument from the whole truth (many times very shameful for Catholics) about the Church, comparative argument no. 1 (Christianity versus other Religions), comparative argument no. 2 (Christianity versus the ever more secularized world).
Defending Christianity in our time became unpopular, “private”, shy and… poor. Catholic fundamental theology – officially responsible for defending faith on behalf of the Catholic Church – is aware of being in crisis: crisis of identity and content, and… popularity. It needs a new overall structure: a new point of departure and a new “spirit”. It was offered by Joseph Ratzinger, Krzysztof Kaucha declares. Almost everything that has been recently used to undermine the Christian faith and Christianity is used by Ratzinger to… defend Christianity. Kaucha offers over a dozen arguments for Christianity based on Ratzinger’s writings (and his original thinking): the Christian axiom as an argument for Christianity, Jesus Christ as the proof of the existence of God, Divine Revelation as an unending proof of God’s existence, the alternative argument, the argument from definitive novelty, the argument from the absence of someone greater than Jesus, argument from truth, the anthropological argument, the argument from forgiveness, the argument “from reason”, the argument from faith, Ratzinger’s wager (in analogy to the famous Pascal’s wager), the argument from the whole truth (many times very painful for Christians) about Christianity, the argument from the whole truth (many times very shameful for Catholics) about the Church, comparative argument no. 1 (Christianity versus other Religions), comparative argument no. 2 (Christianity versus the ever more secularized world).
- By (author) Krzysztof Kaucha
- Series edited by Adam Kubiś
- Series edited by Nicholas Adams
- Series edited by Marek Jagodziński
- Series edited by Pawel Mąkosa
- Consultant editor Pawel Mąkosa
- Consultant editor Zdzisław Kijas
- Consultant editor Juan Luis Lorda
- Consultant editor David Fagerberg
- Consultant editor Klaus Baumann
- Consultant editor Carl-Maria Sultana
- Consultant editor Ilaria Ramelli
- Consultant editor Łukasz Popko
- Consultant editor Dalia Marx
Other Titles in this Series
Isaiah in the Fourth Gospel
Use of the Citations of Isaiah in John’s Gospel in Comparison to the Synoptics and Other Places in the New Testament
Bloodshed by King Manasseh, Assyrians and Priestly Scribes
Theological Meaning and Historical-Cultural Contextualization of 2 Kings 21:16, 24:3-4 in Relation to the Fall of Judah
The Christological Metaphors of Wine, Water, and Bread in the Gospel of John in Relation to Their Sapiential Background
An Intertextual Study
Religious and National Identity of Polish Emigrants in Great Britain
Catechetical and Pastoral Implications
Man in Metanoiacal Dialogue with God
The Biblical and Hesychastic Message of the Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete
The Church in the Face of Crises and Challenges over the Centuries
Selected Issues from the History of the Church
Similar Books
A Companion to Christianity and Sport in Europe and North America (19th-21st centuries)
Volume 1: Western and Eastern Europe
A Connecting Polemic in the Medieval Mediterranean
The Correspondence of Leo III and ʿUmar II
Volume 6
Ars Prophetica
Theology in the Poetry of Twentieth-Century Hebrew Poets Avraham Halfi, Shin Shalom, Amir Gilboa, and T. Carmi
As Messianism Turns to Heresy
The Regenstein Chair Lectures On Lurianic Kabbalah and Shabbatai Tzevi at Hebrew Union College - Cincinnati
Creating the Woman in Antiquity
Proceedings of the 16th Melammu Workshop, Innsbruck, 2–3 June 2022
Volume 13
Cultic Kisses
Fruitful Encounters Between Deities and Humans. Festschrift for Angelika Berlejung on the Occasion of Her 65th Birthday
De/colonizing Theologies
Glocal Histories, Contemporary Challenges, Theoretical Reflections
Volume 4
Drunk the Potion, No Whit Charmed
The Doctrine of Pure and Perfect Souls from Iamblichus to Damascius
Extracanonical Traditions and the Holy Land
Texts, Rituals, and Material Culture in Late Antique Palestine
Fear, Fear of God, God-Fearers
Philological and Historical Perspectives on the World of Ancient Judaism and Christianity
Gender and Iconography in Antiquity
Femininities, Masculinities, Ambiguities, and Beyond in the Ancient Levant, Near East, and Mediterranean