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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