Favorite Ratzinger Book

[zunshynn]

[quote name='truthfinder' date='13 April 2010 - 02:26 PM' timestamp='1271190399' post='2092670']
I know it's not quite his book, but I like the [i]Ratzinger Report[/i]. Call me lame, but, yeah, I liked it.
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I liked Ratzinger Report too! I just forgot to include it. I think as far as that type of book goes, I did like Salt of the Earth more, but Ratzinger Report was pretty good.

[Laudate_Dominum]

[quote name='zunshynn' date='12 April 2010 - 08:31 PM' timestamp='1271118696' post='2092060']
this makes me very sad.


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Sorry zun. Sad to say, I have not read every Ratzinger book, nor even all of the books listed in your poll. I have even failed at keeping up with his encyclicals! I have read most of the books on your list (have not read [i]Called to Communion[/i] or [i]Jesus of Nazareth[/i], although I have seen the movie) and I guess I'd pick "Spirit of the Liturgy" as my fave. Thanks for reminding me of a past resolution to read more B16.

[zunshynn]

[quote name='Laudate_Dominum' date='13 April 2010 - 02:33 PM' timestamp='1271190804' post='2092684']
Sorry zun. Sad to say, I have not read every Ratzinger book, nor even all of the books listed in your poll. I have even failed at keeping up with his encyclicals! I have read most of the books on your list and I guess I'd pick "Spirit of the Liturgy" as my fave. Thanks for reminding me of a past resolution to read more B16.
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This makes me happy.

Now I just have to get Apo...

Edited April 13, 2010 by zunshynn

[BG45]

I almost voted for Introduction to Christianity, it's the only one on the list I've read. However, it isn't my favorite so I voted Other. Rather, Milestones is. It's his autobiography of the early years of his life, through his time teaching in a university setting. It's moving and beautiful, and provides a context of the "human side", so to speak, of the Pope.

[laetitia crucis]

[quote name='BG45' date='14 April 2010 - 09:44 AM' timestamp='1271249062' post='2093125']
I almost voted for Introduction to Christianity, it's the only one on the list I've read. However, it isn't my favorite so I voted Other. Rather, Milestones is. It's his autobiography of the early years of his life, through his time teaching in a university setting. [b]It's moving and beautiful, and provides a context of the "human side", so to speak, of the Pope.[/b]
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[TeresaBenedicta]

Oh, very easily [i]Introduction to Christianity[/i]!! (Which, let me warn you... it is hardly an [i]introduction[/i] to Christianity!) It's absolutely brilliant. Probably the most important theological book I have read. It does presuppose you understand some (or quite a bit) of philosophy. But it is [i]well[/i] worth the read.

[i]Spirit of the Liturgy[/i] comes in as a second.

[Resurrexi]

[i]Spirit of the Liturgy[/i]

[Noel's angel]

Too hard to choose. Faith and the Future is a good one, too. Oh goodness, my head is in a spin. I vote for them all.

[tinytherese]

Has anyone read both Introduction to Christianity and C.S. Lewis' Mere Christianity? How do they compare?

[TeresaBenedicta]

[quote name='tinytherese' date='14 April 2010 - 07:33 PM' timestamp='1271284411' post='2093575']
Has anyone read both Introduction to Christianity and C.S. Lewis' Mere Christianity? How do they compare?
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There's a pretty huge difference between the two. [i]Mere Christianity[/i] is much more accessible and accurately grasps the basics of Christianity. [i]Intro to Christianity[/i], like I mentioned earlier, is a slightly deceptive title. It's not necessarily an intro in what we normally think of as an intro to a subject. It presupposes a pretty substantial knowledge of philosophy. Ratzinger is, in part, responding to the crisis of Modernity in the first section of his book. Then he moves into an in depth (and really, mind-blowing) explanation of the Creed. It's a pretty major work of theology.