What Is Christianity?

Beskrivelse

After Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI resigned from the papacy in 2013, he
never stopped thinking or writing. Near the end of his life, he and
editor Elio Guerriero gathered together a whole volume of new material,
dealing with the themes closest to his heart. The pope asked that it be
published upon his death.

This final work is What Is Christianity?
It takes up a kaleidoscopic array of themes: the Christian faith’s
relationship with other religions, especially Judaism and Islam; the
theology and reform of the liturgy; the priesthood; the saints; the
Eucharist; the travesty of abuse; the beauty of nature; Italian and
German culture; and much more.

With prophetic insight into our
times, Benedict warns of a “radical manipulation of man” in the name of
tolerance, insisting that the only “authentic counterweight to every
form of intolerance” is Christ himself—and Christ crucified.

A
lifelong Catholic, the late pope pays tribute to some of the giant
figures of Christianity who have served him through the years as guiding
stars: his predecessor Pope John Paul II, the twentieth-century German
Jesuit martyr Alfred Delp, and the silent carpenter Joseph, his patron
saint.

What Is Christianity? is a frank spiritual
testament from a theological master, a churchman who loved the faith of
simple Christians but who always stood ready, even in his last days, to
dialogue about every aspect of human life—in love and in truth.

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