On the Way to Jesus Christ

by Pope Benedict XVI

Jesus Christ is as popular as ever. Films, books, and news articles ask,"Who was Jesus Christ?" Even outside of Christianity he continues to appeal to people. And yet for so many, the popular Jesus is... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1586171240
• ISBN13: 9781586171247
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Ignatius Press
• Length: 185 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Easily Understood Christology from a Theologian Pope

This book expands on the Christology that the current Pope teaches. There are indicators of the Bonaventure-based theology of Christ here, the very topic on which His Holiness wrote his Doctoral dissertation. Ratzinger writes as he teaches- methodically and evenly paced, luring the reader into a deeper understanding of the study and pursuit of Jesus Christ. The reader will come away with a more profound appreciation of all thing Catholic, taught in a way this "theologian pope" can. If you can only read 3 pages, the introduction- hard hitting and in the face of relativism sums up his intent.

Brilliant!

This is a 'must read' book for every Catholic, really every Christian, and anyone who really wants to understand the person that is Jesus. The modern descriptions of Jesus presented to us tends to be the man carrying a lamb over his shoulder, rubbing a little childs head and smiling - the man who accepts everything with out judgement. But as the Pope so beautifully points out in this book, this modern Jesus in not the man you find in the Gospel. The Jesus you find in the Gospel is the one who can change your life, change societies life. I am an average lay person - not specifically educated in religion or theology - and I could clearly understand and relate to everything the Pope wrote about in the book, it wasn't over my head. He has a wonderful way of writing and can take very complex ideas and situations and make them understandable in a beautiful way. His knowledge and deep understanding of the bible and all Christian tradition is obviousl and shows through in every paragraph. It is facinating to see how he works scripture and ideas from the Saints directly into his thoughts and writing. This book should be in every home library.

An outstanding collection of various meditations that Pope Benedict XVI wrote for the Doctrine of th

On The Way To Jesus Christ by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is an outstanding collection of various meditations that Pope Benedict XVI wrote for the Doctrine of the Faith as a Perfect for the Congregation. On The Way To Jesus Christ analysis Jesus as the only Christendom and also studies the Church's has a responsibility to evangelize non-christians, concluding with reflections on Jesus' Presence in the Holy Eucharist, and the Catechism of the Catholic Church's presentation of the Christian mystery as seen through the Church's traditional view of Sacred Scripture. On The Way To Jesus Christ is very highly recommended to all Roman Catholics seeking a better understanding of Jesus Christ from the perspective of the man who is now Pope Benedict XVI.

A Jesus Worth Dying For

A Jesus Worth Dying For Christology seems to have come full circle. Beginning with Albert Schweitzer's Quest For the Historical Jesus, initiated at the turn of the twentieth century, and accented with Rudolf Bultmann's existentialist approach, theological inquiry into the person of Christ has been gradually picking up speed on a downward spiral, hitting rock bottom in the last many years when many theologians, under the pretext of licit academic freedom, have been found writing off even the most rudimentary elements of ecclesiastical teaching; teachings hammered out in the beginning centuries of the post-apostolic era. Most recently, Roger Haight-former president of the Catholic Theological Society of America (CTSA)-was under investigation by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) for ideas he forwarded in his book, Jesus Symbol of God. The inquiry into his work climaxed at the beginning of this year when the CDF, then under of leadership of Joseph Ratzinger-now, Pope Benedict XVI-published a notification on Haight's book, claiming that it denied the divinity of Jesus, the Trinity, the salvific value of Jesus' death, the exclusive and universal mediation of Christ in salvation, and the resurrection. One would be naive to think that the lack of such notifications on the part of the magisterium would mean that Haight is a black spot on a white wall; this could not be further from the truth. In the midst of a quite telling defense given to the theologian throughout the academic world, the most appropriate of responses came from Jesuit, Gerald O'Collins, who said, "I wouldn't give my life for Roger Haight's Jesus. It's a triumph of relevance over orthodoxy". Indeed, it is. It is into this scene that we welcome Ratzinger's newest book, On the Way to Jesus Christ. In this timely collection of essays, from a scholar who has so often been at the forefront of these debates, he responds again to the question of Christ: "Who do you say that I am". While many theologians seem to suggest that there can be no true and orthodox response to this inquiry, Ratzinger shows that the mystery of Christ is such that while there are certainly boarders within which one must swim, theological speculation, faithful to the Church, is like an ocean-virtually inexhaustible. It is ironic that the re-construction of the "historical Jesus" is being taken on by the same strand of thinkers whose philosophical presuppositions led to the de-construction to begin with. This "band of scholarship", notes Ratzinger, "forbids God access to the world" because is starts with the inference that "history is fundamentally and always uniform and that therefore nothing can take place in history but what is possible as a result of causes known to us in nature and in human activity." "Divine interventions", he continues, "that go beyond the constant interaction of natural and human causes...cannot be historical." What follows, then, is a God that has no real activity in the worl