JOSEPH RATZINGER'S ANTHROPOLOGICAL WRITINGS FOR
"COMMUNIO" GATHERED IN NEW BOOK
Vatican
City, 20 February 2013 (VIS) – Fourteen texts with an
anthropological theme written by Joseph Ratzinger between 1972 and 2005 before
being elected Pope are being published in the volume "Joseph Ratzinger in
Communio: Anthropology and Culture (Michigan/Cambridge, Wm. B. Eerdmans
Publishing Co., 2013), edited by David L. Schindler and Nicholas J. Healy. The
texts?articles and contributions?address, among others, themes such as humanity
between reproduction and creation; Jesus Christ today; the meaning of Sunday;
hope, technological security understood as a problem of social ethics; and God
in John Paul II's "Crossing the Threshold of Hope".
As reported by "L'Osservatore Romano", the connecting
theme in the Pope's writings is that they been published or re-edited in the
American edition of the international Catholic periodical "Communio".
This is the second volume dedicated to Joseph Ratzinger's texts, the first of
which, "Joseph Ratzinger in Communio: The Unity of the Church" was released
in 2010, and was also edited by David L. Schindler. The plan, as Schindler
explains in the introductory note in the second volume, is to republish all of
Cardinal Ratzinger's articles that appeared in the American edition of
"Communio", from its first edition in 1974. Despite the difficulty in
clearly establishing the boundaries of their areas, the writings have been
grouped into three major categories: Church, anthropology, and theological
renewal.
"Communio" is an international journal on theology and
culture published quarterly. It was founded in 1972 by various theologians
including Hans Urs von Balthasar, Henri de Lubac, Jean-Luc Marion and Joseph
Ratzinger himself.
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