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Is truth knowable? If we know the truth, must we hide it in the name of tolerance? Cardinal Ratzinger engages the problem of truth, tolerance, religion, and culture in the modern world. Describing the vast array of world religions, Ratzinger embraces the difficult challenge of meeting diverse understandings of spiritual truth while defending the Catholic teaching of salvation through Jesus...

the sake of his conscience dares to break free from what is accustomed: this revolutionary trait in Christianity has perhaps far too long been hidden beneath various conservative models.7 There are no doubt a whole series of conclusions waiting to be drawn from this; we will leave them aside for now to go into this question step by step. If we put before the man of today Christianity’s conception of other religions, as we have just outlined it, then he will not for the most part be particularly impressed.
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