Today marks the election of Joseph Ratzinger as Pope Benedict XVI
Published : 04/19/2021 12:55:02
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Today marks the election of Joseph Ratzinger as Pope Benedict XVI. "Gesù di Nazaret" is the last book that Joseph Ratzinger - Benedict XVI, one of the greatest theologians of the 20th century, had proposed to write as the final act of his intellectual and scientific journey, even before being elected Pope. It narrates the second part of Jesus' life, from the entry into Jerusalem to the Resurrection. It is not an official act of his magisterium, the author does not speak as Roman Pontiff, but it is the testimony of a man of faith, a scholar of Christ and an outstanding theologian. The passionate and scientifically rigorous analysis of the events - the Entrance into Jerusalem, the Washing of the Feet, the Last Supper, Gethsemane and more - is as if crossed by an ever-recurring background note, a question of decisive importance for the scholar and for every believer: is the Jesus in whom we believe also the Jesus who really existed? Do the Gospels show us the most historically sensible and convincing figure of Jesus? Through the pages of this book we thus have the opportunity not so much to "study" Jesus, but to be helped to encounter him in his decisive love, even unto death, and victorious for eternity. A book of great help then, precisely in the Easter season we are living.
