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“Dogma,” for many people, is a bad word. For the well-informed believer, it shouldn’t be. Dogmas are truths revealed by God, which should enlighten the minds, guide the choices, and gladden the hearts of Jesus’ disciples, including pastors, deacons, and lay teachers. But, as Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI), notes in the foreword to this book, “The path from dogma to proclamation or preaching...

* Talking about the crisis in preaching has already become commonplace today. The What, How, and Where of preaching have become, as it were, questionable; various kinds of attempts at reform are offered, from flight into strict biblicism to unadulterated congregational conversation in which those present merely exchange their opinions and possibly seek guidelines for action in common based on opinions they have worked out together.1 The central fact behind all this
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