released 1/27/2023

In honor of the death on New Year’s Eve of Pope (Emeritus) Benedict XVI, today’s Feature is a reading of a 2007 article by Geoffrey Wainwright, a long-time professor of theology at Duke University Divinity School. The article is titled “A Remedy for Relativism: The Cosmic, Historical, and Eschatological Dimensions of the Liturgy according to the Theologian Joseph Ratzinger.”

This article was originally published in Nova et Vetera, Vol. 5, No. 2 (2007) and is presented here by permission of the publishers.

78 minutes

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