Explorations in the Theology of Benedict XVI

Benedict XVI’s writing as priest-professor bishop head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and now pope has shaped Catholic theological thought in the twentieth century. In Explorations in the Theology of Benedict XVI a multidisciplinary group of scholars treat the full scope of Benedict’s theological oeuvre including the Augustinian context of his thought; his ecclesiology; his theologically grounded approach to biblical exegesis and Christology; his unfolding of a theology of history and culture; his liturgical and sacramental theology; his theological analysis of political and economic developments; his use of the natural law in ethics and conscience; his commitment to a form of interreligious dialogue from a place of particularity; and his function as a public catechetical theologian.