Dogma and Preaching: Applying Christian Doctrine to Daily Life, 2nd Ed.

by Pope Benedict XVI

Publisher:

Ignatius

, 2011

Overview

In Dogma and Preaching, the theologian and priest Joseph Ratzinger provides (1) a theory of preaching for today; (2) application of this theory to some themes for preaching drawn from the Church’s dogmas; (3) meditations and sermons based on the liturgical year and the communion of saints; and (4) some thoughts regarding the decade after the Second Vatican and Christianity’s seeming irrelevance. Ratzinger insists that sound preaching should rest on three pillars—Dogma, Scripture, and the Church today. He shows that the proper understanding of the Church, her dogmas, the nature of faith, and the contemporary world allow the proclaimer-believer to remain faithful to the Church’s mission and life-changing message.

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Key Features

• Provides profound biblical teaching for both Protestants and Catholics
• Presents a theory for preaching today
• Insists that sound preaching should rest on three pillars—Dogma, Scripture and the Church

Contents

Top Highlights

“The inner tension of preaching depends on the objective arch spanning and upheld by the pillars: Dogma-Scripture-Church-Today; not one of them can be taken away without the whole thing eventually collapsing.” (Page 7)

“In the Old Testament, if I am looking at it correctly, we can find three principal roots of preaching. The first is found in the area of the Torah, Israel’s ordinances for worship and living.” (Page 15)

“Trinitarian preaching means one and the same thing as christocentric preaching, namely, the exposition of the way of Christian existence through Christ in the Spirit to the Father.” (Page 46)

“Christian preaching is not the presentation of a doctrinal system but, rather, training in Christian reality, the crystallization point of which is the eucharistic celebration.” (Page 51)

“Christocentrism presupposes the event of God becoming man and is, therefore, at bottom nothing other than Theocentrism. It assumes the presence of the Risen Christ in the Church and, therefore, demands very personal obedience to Christ just as much as it requires unity with the faith, prayer, and liturgy of the Church.” (Page 45)

Product Details

• Title: Dogma and Preaching: Applying Christian Doctrine to Daily Life
• Author: Joseph Ratzinger
• Edition: 2nd
• Publisher: Ignatius Press
• Publication Date: 2011
• Pages: 550
• Christian Group: Catholic
• Resource Type: Monographs
• Topic: Creeds, Councils, Confessions, and Catechisms

About Pope Benedict XVI

Pope Benedict XVI was the 265th pope, by virtue of his office of Bishop of Rome, the Sovereign of the Vatican City State and the head of the Roman Catholic Church. He was elected on 19 April 2005 in a papal conclave, celebrated his Papal Inauguration Mass on 24 April 2005, and took possession of his cathedral, the Basilica of St. John Lateran, on 7 May 2005. A native of Bavaria, Pope Benedict XVI has both German and Vatican citizenship.