Ser cristiano en la era neopagana

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Ediciones Encuentro, S.A., 1995 M05 4 - 208 páginas
«Europa está hoy a punto de volver a ser de nuevo pagana. Pero entre estos nuevos paganos existe también una nueva sed de Dios que a menudo está mal orientada. Esta sed no se apaga con sueños de una nueva Iglesia ni con una Iglesia que pretenda renovarse a sí misma mediante discusiones sin término. Cuando es esto último lo que se ofrece, muchos prefieren refugiarse en lo esotérico, en lo mágico, allí donde parece abrirse la atmósfera del misterio, de lo totalmente otro.» * * * «Cuanto más se extiende la Iglesia el ámbito de las cosas decididas y hechas autónomamente, tanto más angosta se convierte para todos nosotros. En ella la dimensión grande, liberadora, no está constituida por lo que nosotros mismos hacemos, sino por lo que nos es donado. Se trata de algo que no procede de nuestro querer y de nuestro inventar, sino que nos precede, es algo inimaginable que viene a nosotros, algo que 'es más grande que nuestro corazón'. La reformatio, que es necesaria en todas las épocas, no consiste en el hecho de que podamos modelar cada vez 'nuestra' Iglesia como más nos apetece, sino en el hecho de que siempre nos deshacemos de nuestras propias construcciones de apoyo a favor de una luz purísima que viene desde lo alto y que es al mismo tiempo la irrupción de la libertad pura.»

Acerca del autor (1995)

Joseph Ratzinger was born on April 16, 1927 in Marktl am Inn in the state of Bavaria, Germany. Ratzinger entered the minor seminary in Traunstein, in 1939 and in 1943 along with the rest of his seminary class he was drafted into the Flak [anti-aircraft corps]. In 1944 he was released from the Flak and returned home only to be drafted into labor detail under the infamous Austrian Legion. In the spring of 1945 Ratzinger deserted the army and headed home but when the Americans arrive at his village shortly thereafter, he was identified as a German soldier and incarcerated in a POW camp for a brief time. Following his release he re-entered the seminary. In 1951 Joseph was ordained into the priesthood and began lectures as a full professor of fundamental theology at the University of Bonn. From 1962-65 Ratzinger was present during all four sessions of the Second Vatican Council as a peritus, or chief theological advisor to Cardinal Joseph Frings of Cologne, Germany.. In 1977 Joseph Ratzinger was appointed Archbishop of Munich and Freising and on June 27 elevated to Cardinal of Munich by Pope Paul VI. In 1981 Ratzinger accepted Pope John Paul II's invitation to take over as Prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and in 1986 he was appointed head of a 12-member commission responsible for drafting the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Cardinal Ratzinger was elected vice dean of the College of Cardinals in 1988. In 2002 Pope John Paul II, approved his election as dean of the College of Cardinals. On April 8, 2005, Cardinal Ratzinger presided over the funeral of Pope John Paul II. On April 19, 2005, Cardinal Ratzinger was elected Bishop of Rome on the fourth ballot of the conclave and took the name Benedict XVI.

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