Ratzinger, Joseph Cardinal

In this lecture, Matthew Crawford draws a distinction between an orientation toward receiving life as gift and a timid and cramped rationalism that views man as an object to be synthetically remade. (52 minutes)

Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger on the “dictatorship of relativism”

Joseph Ratzinger on how the longing for eternity expressed in human love is an analogue of Trinitarian love

FEATURED GUESTS: Kirk Farney, Andrew Willard Jones, James L. Nolan, Jr., Andrew Kaethler, Peter Ramey, and Kathryn Wehr

An article by theologian Tracey Rowland titled “Joseph Ratzinger’s Trinitarian Theology of Culture” summarizes the ramifications of Ratzinger's confidence that a recognition of the Trinity is the foundation of any reliable and faithful account of the relationship between faith and culture. (65 minutes)

Geoffrey Wainwright analyzes Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger’s thought on how the crisis of relativism in the West manifests in society and the arts, showing how Ratzinger grounded his response in a deep theology of worship and liturgy. (78 minutes)

Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger argues that freedom must be understood in the context of interplay of reason and the will

Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger asks if Christian faith is just lovely subjective consolation, a kind of make-believe world side by side with the real world

Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger on the relationship between freedom and truth

Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger on acknowledging the Source of rationality

Joseph Ratzinger on the partnership of faith and reason in the coherence of love and truth

Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger on lessons for faith from physics

Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger on the loss of belief in the public presence of God

Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger on the apologetic necessity of holiness and great art