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Benedict XVI: A Life Volume One - Youth in Nazi Germany to the Second Vatican Council 1927–1965 (Hardcover)
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Benedict XVI: A Life Volume One - Youth in Nazi Germany to the Second Vatican Council 1927–1965 (Hardcover)
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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 almost 600 years. But who was 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 Küng 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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