Faith and the Future
Overview
Increasingly, the future is becoming a theme for theological reflection. In the background we can detect a growing concern among many people for the future of faith. Does faith have any future at all, and, if so, where in all the confusion of today’s trends will we discover its embryo?
But the problem of the future assails not only the believer. In the ever more rapidly advancing process of historical evolution, man is confronted with enormous opportunities, but also with colossal perils. For him, the future is not only hope, but sorrow—a nightmare, indeed. He cannot avoid asking what part faith can play in building tomorrow’s world.
Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, approaches this problem of universal concern from a variety of angles, bringing his deep personal faith and theological brilliance to bear on these serious questions.
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Key Features
- Addresses the theme of theological reflection
- Reflects upon the advancing process of historical evolution
- Provides profound biblical teaching for both Protestants and Catholics
Contents
- Faith and Knowledge
- Faith and Existence
- Faith and Philosophy
- The Future of the World through the Hope of Men
- What Will the Church Look Like in 2000?
Top Highlights
“To put it very roughly, he reduced philosophy to the analysis of the conditions of the possibility of human knowledge, to the elucidation of the laws of human consciousness.” (Page 76)
“at its core, faith is, not a system of knowledge, but trust” (Page 33)
“men like Fichte, Hegel, and Schelling did try once again to break through into the realm of total reality” (Pages 76–77)
“limited to what is given and amenable to verification” (Page 76)
“kind of love that seizes a man and points the way he must go, even if that way is wearisome” (Page 36)
Praise for the Print Edition
Faith and the Future is a small book, but it deals with the largest issues, and does so in a way that has the ring of lived truth.
—Mike Potemra, editor, National Review
Product Details
- Title: Faith and the Future
- Author: Joseph Ratzinger
- Publisher: Ignatius Press
- Publication Date: 2009
- Pages: 118
- Christian Group: Catholic
- Resource Type: Monographs
- Topic: Creeds, Councils, Confessions, and Catechisms
About Joseph Ratzinger
Joseph Ratzinger is one of the most revered Catholic prelates, scholars, theologians, teachers, and authors of our time. He has spoken on many crucial subjects, including sexual consumerism, roles of men and women today, marriage, the priesthood, and the future of the world. On June 29, 1951, Joseph Ratzinger was ordained to the priesthood in the Cathedral of Freising on the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul. He also received his doctorate in theology in 1953 from the University of Munich. Starting in 1959, Ratzinger taught theology at the University of Bonn.
After many years of teaching at several German universities, Ratzinger was appointed by Pope Paul VI as Archbishop of Munich and Freising in March 1977, and was elevated to cardinal in June 1977. In November 1981, Ratzinger was summoned by Pope John Paul II to Rome, where he was named Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, President of the Pontifical Biblical Commission, and President of the International Theological Commission.
On April 19, 2005, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected to be the 265th pope. He took the name Benedict XVI, after St. Benedict of Nursia. As pope, he received worldwide respect and was a spiritual influence to Christians and non-Christians alike. In 2013, he resigned the papacy, becoming the first pope to do so in since the fifteenth century. He retired to a monastery in the Vatican Gardens, where he continues to study and write.