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Covenant and Communion: The Biblical Theology of Pope Benedict XVI is unavailable, but you can change that!

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger’s election as Pope Benedict XVI brought a world-class theologian to the papacy. With an intensely biblical quality to his pastoral teaching, he has demonstrated a keen concern for the authentic interpretation and application of sacred Scripture. In Covenant and Communion, Scott Hahn, a preeminent interpreter of Catholic thought and life, offers a probing look at...

calls “increasing simplification and concentration,” Church authorities finally settled on the three titles found in the earliest creeds: Christ, Lord, and Son of God.12 This historical footnote is intriguing on a number of levels. First, it challenges the assumption that there was some original, primitive simplicity in the way Christians understood the identity of Jesus. It challenges, too, the modern exegetical presumption that creeds and liturgical formulas are later “ecclesial” additions that
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