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The Nature and Mission of Theology: Essays to Orient Theology in Today’s Debates is unavailable, but you can change that!

As Cardinal, Joseph Ratzinger wrote this book in response to the dialogue going on today concerning theology and the clarification of its methods, its mission, and its limits which he thinks has become urgent. Ratzinger states: “To do theology—as the Magisterium understands theology—it is not sufficient merely to calculate how much religion can reasonably be expected of man and to utilize bits...

the faith itself, then there must be an authority able to exercise this function. In consequence, the Church herself must have a voice; she must be capable of expressing herself as Church and of distinguishing false belief from the true faith. This implies that faith and theology are not identical and that each has its own characteristic voice but that the voice of theology is dependent upon that of faith and oriented toward it. Theology is interpretation and must remain such. When it no longer interprets
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