Ratzinger on Religious Pluralism by Advani, Sameer;

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Delving into a lifetime of priestly reflections, this synthesis examines how divine providence embraces diverse religions while reconciling God’s universal call with the unique salvific role of Christ. It unveils a dynamic interplay between shared human truth-seeking and distinct theological missions.

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"What can Christian theology claim about the place of other religions in God's providential plan for humanity? How can it reconcile the universality of God's saving plan and the particularity of Christ and the Church? What meaning is left to Christian existence and mission in a religiously pluralist world? As priest-theologian, cardinal archbishop, and pope, Joseph Ratzinger reflected on these difficult questions for more than half a century and in a variety of contexts, proffering an array of profound answers that are dispersed across his substantial literary corpus. In Ratzinger on Religious Pluralism, Sameer Advani assembles and synthesizes these reflections and answers of the late pontiff, providing a systematic study of Ratzinger's theology of religions that attends to the scope of his larger historical, philosophical, and theological concerns. The first part analyzes Ratzinger's critical engagement with various paradigms of religious pluralism, whose accounts of religion, Christianity, and non-Christian religions he found both phenomenologically and theologically wanting. The second part, in turn, explores Ratzinger's positive proposal for a theology of religions, which locates both Christianity and non-Christian religions against the larger backgrounds of anthropological unity, the human search for truth, and divine providence. Advani argues that while Ratzinger rejected the idea that other religions are salvific or on par with Christianity, he recognized both their important role in God's providential plan and their suitedness to an ""assumption"" into the Church through mutual, albeit asymmetric, purification and enrichment."

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• Acknowledgements
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Part I
• The De Facto Religious Pluralism of the ""Christian of Today""
• Section I A New Philosophical Understanding of Religion
• Chapter 1: The Modern Redefinition of Religion
• Chapter 2: The Postmodern Redefinition of Religion
• Conclusions and Critical Reflections
• Section II An Anthropologically Based Universal Salvation Optimism
• Chapter 3: The Lead-Up to Vatican II and the Novelty of Lumen Gentium
• Chapter 4: The Difficulties of Vatican II
• Chapter 5: Postconciliar Developments
• Conclusions and Critical Reflections
• Section III A New Theological Understanding of Religion
• Chapter 6: Exclusivism and Inclusivism
• Chapter 7: Vatican II on the Other Religions
• Chapter 8: Theologies of Religious Pluralism
• Conclusions and Critical Reflections
• Part II
• The Value of Non-Christian Religions, and the Meaning of Christian Identity and Mission in the Religiously Plural World
• Section IV Similarities, Differences, and Historical Relationships: A Phenomenological Evaluation of Religions
• Chapter 9: Discovering a Taxonomy of Religions
• Chapter 10: Delving Deeper into the Phenomenological Evidence
• Conclusions and Critical Reflections
• Section V Transforming Pluralism into Anthropological Plurality: A Philosophical Evaluation of Religions
• Chapter 11: The Anthropological-Epistemological-Linguistic Basis for the Unity and Plurality of Religions
• Chapter 12: Interreligious Dialogue
• Conclusions and Critical Reflections
• Section VI Transforming Anthropological Plurality into the Unity in Diversity of Faith: A Theological Evaluation of Religions
• Chapter 13: Mission and Double Fulfillment
• Conclusions and Critical Reflections
• Section VII The Church as the Sacrament of Salvation
• Chapter 14: Vicarious Representation
• Chapter 15: Christian Identity and Mission: A Eucharistic Existence
• Chapter 16: Collaborating with Grace
• Conclusions and Critical Reflections
• Selected Bibliography Of Joseph Ratzinger Of Benedict XVI
• Index