Cardinal Ratzinger’s Preface to Michel Schooyans Book, “The Gospel: Confronting World Disorder”
Wednesday January 7, 2009 Cardinal Ratzinger’s Preface to Michel Schooyans Book, “The Gospel: Confronting World Disorder” By Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger From the very beginning of the Enlightenment, belief in progress has always set Christian eschatology aside and eventually replaced it entirely. Happiness is no longer anticipated in the afterlife but rather in this world. The attitude of Albert Camus, who resolutely opposes to Christ’s words “my kingdom is not of this world, his affirmation that “my kingdom is of this world,” is emblematic of modern man’s disposition.. If in the last century belief in progress was still a generic optimism […]
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