Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
0.1 Ratzinger, the Aufklärung and Logos Christo-Ecclesiology.
0.2 Book Structure
Notes — Introduction
1.1 Biographical Framework
1.2 The Question of the State of the Church in the Perception of the Young Ratzinger
1.3 Ratzinger’s Philosophical Formation
1.4 Ratzinger’s Theological Formation
Notes — Chapter One
Chapter Two: Ratzinger: From Augustine and Bonaventure through the Aufklärung to the God of Faith and the God of the Philosophers
2.1 The Peculiarities of the Aufklärung
2.2 Ratzinger’s 1959 Inaugural Lecture: God of Faith and God of the Philosophers
2.3 The Reconciliation of the God of Faith and the God of Philosophers
2.4 Building on the Inaugural Lecture: The God of Faith and God of the Philosophers in the Introduction to Christianity
2.5 The Transformation of the God of Philosophers by Faith in Ratzinger’s Introduction to Christianity
Notes — Chapter Two
Chapter Three: A Ratzingerian Reading of the Historico-Philosophical Trajectory of the Concept of Logos as the Bridge to the Aufklärung
3.1 Heraclitus of Ephesus (circa 500 BC) and logos
3.2 Philo of Alexandria (circa BC 20—AD 50) and logos
3.3 Justin Martyr (AD 100—165) and the Logos
3.4 Irenaeus of Lyons (AD 130—202) and the Logos
3.5 Origen of Alexandria (AD 184—253) and the Logos
3.6 Logos in the Gospel of John: An Epochal Theological Inculturation
Notes — Chapter Three
4.1 Logos as Creative Reason: Ratzinger’s Engagement with the Aufklärung’s Necessary Causality of Nature and Dialectical Materialism
4.2 Logos as Son: Ratzinger’s Engagement with the Aufklärung’s Reinterpretation of the New Testament Gestalt of Jesus Christ
4.3 Logos as Person: Ratzinger’s Engagement with the Aufklärung’s Pragmatic Personalism
Notes — Chapter Four
Chapter Five: An Ecclesiological Reading of Ratzinger’s Theological Appropriation of Logos as Unity of Love and Logos as Word vis-à-vis the Aufklärung
5.1 Ratzinger: The Church: A Story God Himself Has Created
5.2 Logos as Unity of Love: Ratzinger’s Engagement with the Aufklärung’s Notion of Self-Assertive Love
5.3 Logos as Word: Ratzinger’s Engagement with the Aufklärung’s Non-Cultic Rational Faith
Notes — Chapter Five
Chapter Six: Ratzinger: Beyond the Aufklärung Historical Scientificity of Reason — Interacting with Critical Voices
6.1 A Critical Voice: Ratzinger’s Devotion to an Anti-Aufklärung “Old Fashioned Bavarian God.”
6.2 Understanding the Ratzingerian Claim of the Insufficiency of Aufklärung “Mere Rationality”
Notes — Chapter Six
Conclusion: Ratzinger and the Philosophical Hermeneutics to Faith — The Task for Today
Afterword: Joseph Ratzinger, Theological Reformer by George Weigel
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