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Light of Reason, Light of Faith - Joseph Ratzinger and the German Enlightenment (Hardcover)
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Light of Reason, Light of Faith - Joseph Ratzinger and the German Enlightenment (Hardcover)
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Fr. Maurice Ashley Agbaw-Ebai, a native of Cameroon, has written a
fresh, exciting new study of the lifelong engagement of Josef
Ratzinger, later Pope Benedict XVI, with the German Enlightenment
and its contemporary manifestations and heirs. Contemporary
European disdain for organized religion and the rise in secularism
on that continent has deep roots in the German Enlightenment. To
understand contemporary Europe, one must return to this crucial
epoch in its history, to those who shaped the European mind of this
era, and to a study of the ideas they espoused and propagated.
These ideas, for good or for ill, have taken hold in other parts of
the modern world, being incarnated in many minds and institutions
in contemporary society and threatening to enthrone a disfigured
rationality without faith or a sense of Transcendence. Ratzinger's
extraordinary and sympathetic understanding of the sources of
contemporary secularism equipped him to appreciate the gains of the
Enlightenment, while still being a fierce critic of the losses
humanity has suffered when reason falsely excludes faith. Fr.
Agbaw-Ebai's account reveals Ratzinger, in relation to his various
interlocutors, to be the truly "enlightened" one because he
demonstrates a truly balanced understanding of the human mind. To
be truly rational one must be able to hold to faith and reason
both, reason informed by faith in Jesus Christ. A particular merit
of this book is Agbaw-Ebai's presentation of Ratzinger's treatment
of the German Enlightenment's greatest contributors: Kant,
Nietzche, Hegel and Habermas, among others. In the postscript
George Weigel characterizes what this study accomplishes in the
larger framework of scholarship. "[Ratzinger's] position remains
too often misunderstood, and sometimes deliberately misinterpreted,
throughout the whole Church. And to misunderstand, or misinterpret,
Ratzinger is to misunderstand or misinterpret both the modern
history of theology and the Second Vatican Council." Agbaw-Ebai
masterfully positions Ratzinger correctly in the history of ideas,
and exhibits why Ratzinger will be remembered as one of its main
players. Pure rationalists and true believers are equally indebted
to him.
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