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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...

the basic Paschal theme. The end of this period will furnish the occasion to broach the eschatological theme. The Christmas cycle then can be applied to the theme of creation and the doctrine about God, which in Christianity is not proclaimed in an abstract, philosophical way but, rather, is discerned from the figure of the incarnate Christ. One speaks quite differently about God’s almighty power when one’s concept of it is derived, not from a treatise De Deo uno, but rather from the crib! How differently
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