Christology and human relationality
Joseph Ratzinger on how the longing for eternity expressed in human love is an analogue of Trinitarian love
Mars Hill Audio Journal, Volume 159
FEATURED GUESTS:
Kirk Farney, Andrew Willard Jones, James L. Nolan, Jr., Andrew Kaethler, Peter Ramey, and Kathryn Wehr
Culture in trinitarian perspective
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)
A remedy for relativism
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)
Is irrational freedom truly freedom?
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger argues that freedom must be understood in the context of interplay of reason and the will
Is religious belief really true?
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
The missional mandate of truth
Joseph Ratzinger on the partnership of faith and reason in the coherence of love and truth
A God with nothing to do
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger on the loss of belief in the public presence of God
The witness of goodness and beauty to truth
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger on the apologetic necessity of holiness and great art