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Benedict XVI: A Life Volume One - Youth in Nazi Germany to the Second Vatican Council 1927-1965 (Paperback)
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Benedict XVI: A Life Volume One - Youth in Nazi Germany to the Second Vatican Council 1927-1965 (Paperback)
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Loot Price R477
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By any reckoning, the papacy of Pope Benedict XVI was
extraordinary, with moments of high drama. Not the least of these
was his resignation from office in February 2013, the first papal
resignation in 500 years. But who is Joseph Ratzinger? In this
definitive biography, based on meticulous historical research and
many hours of taped interviews with his subject, Peter Seewald
shows the exceptional circumstances in which the exceptionally
talented son of a Bavarian policeman became the first German pope
for 950 years. In this first volume, covering the years 1927-1965,
we witness Joseph Ratzinger's early days, living above his father's
police station. Ratzinger came to adulthood through the years of
National Socialism. Though hostile to the rise of Hitler, his
family knew well about Dachau and Ratzinger himself was conscripted
into the Hitler Youth. Joseph Ratzinger proved to be a man of
exceptional intellectual gifts and by the time of the Second
Vatican Council (1962-1965) he was already noted as one of the
outstanding intellects present and was nominated a 'peritus' or
theological expert. This was also the time of the start of his
friendship with the Swiss theologian Hans Kung who was to become
his nemesis. Of his predecessor, Pope Francis has said: 'Pope
Benedict was a great Pope, great for the penetration of his
intelligence, great for his important contribution to theology,
great for his love of the Church and human beings, great for his
virtues and faith'. Even in this first volume, we begin to
understand how this came to be true.
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