The Dialectics of Secularization: On Reason and Religion - Hardcover

Joseph Ratzinger; Jürgen Habermas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1586171666 ISBN 13: 9781586171667

Publisher: Ignatius Press, 2007

Synopsis

Two of the worlds great contemporary thinkers--theologian and churchman Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, and Jrgen Habermas, philosopher and Neo-Marxist social critic--discuss and debate aspects of secularization, and the role of reason and religion in a free society. These insightful essays are the result of a remarkable dialogue between the two men, sponsored by the Catholic Academy of Bavaria, a little over a year before Joseph Ratzinger was elected pope.

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About the Author:

Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI) is recognized as one of the most brilliant theologians and spiritual leaders of our age. As pope he authored the best-selling Jesus of Nazareth. Prior to his pontificate, he wrote many influential books important for the contemporary Church, such as  Introduction to Christianity and The Spirit of the Liturgy.

Review:

Is a public culture of reason and ordered liberty possible in our post-metaphysical age? Is philosophy permanently cut adrift from its grounding in being and anthropology? Does this decline of rationality signal an opportunity or a deep crisis for religion itself? These are truly urgent questions, discussed by two of the greatest thinkers of our time, Jurgen Habermas and Joseph Ratzinger. -- Russell Hittinger

This book may be small in its number of pages, but it is large in its warning of a disintegration of western culture as it enters the global age. -- Dr. Raymond Dennehy

About this edition

• Publisher: Ignatius Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1586171666
• ISBN 13: 9781586171667
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 85