Joseph Ratzinger Collected Writings
Joseph Ratzinger Gesammelte Schriften (JRGS) contain the most important theological works of Joseph Ratzinger on 14 key topics. In terms of time of origin, the works range from his dissertation , written in 1951, to the third part of his Jesus book, which he wrote when he was already Pope , in 2012 . The papal magisterial writings during his pontificate are not included . Some important lexicon articles, book reviews, book prefaces and sermons are also published on the individual topics. The 16-volume book series, which was written by Archbishop Gerhard Ludwig Müller and the Pope Benedict XVI Institute. published since 2008, is published by Herder Verlag . Some of the 15 themed volumes are accompanied by a foreword by Pope Benedict XVI. initiated with his scientific advice and personal memories.
Volumes
- 1 People and House of God in Augustine's Doctrine of the Church - The Dissertation and Further Studies on Augustine and the Theology of the Church Fathers (2011)
“Looking back, I can only feel deeply grateful that the“ prize work ”of that time not only opened the door to a lifelong friendship with St. Augustine, but also led me on the trail of the Eucharistic ecclesiology and thus given me an understanding of the reality of the Church which corresponds to the deepest intentions of the Second Vatican Council and at the same time introduces the spiritual center of Christian existence. "
- Part A - Studies on Augustine
- People and House of God in Augustine's Doctrine of the Church . Dissertation, Munich 1951; first printed edition, Munich 1954.
- Origin and meaning of Augustine's doctrine of civitas. Encounter and discussion with Wilhelm Kamlah. In: Augustinus Magister , Festschrift for Augustine's 1600th birthday, Volume 2, Paris 1954; unchanged in: Walther Lammers (ed.), Historical Thinking and the Image of History in the Middle Ages. Selected essays and works from the years 1933 to 1959. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1961.
- Observations on the concept of the church by Tyconius in the Liber regularum. In: Revue des Études Augustiniennes et Patristiques. Paris 1956 In: Joseph Ratzinger: The new people of God. Drafts on ecclesiology. Patmos, Düsseldorf 1969 ( Patristique.org PDF; 1 MB).
- Originality and tradition in Augustine's concept of confessio. In: Revue des Études Augustiniennes et Patristiques. Paris 1957 ( Patristique.org PDF; 1 MB).
- Church in the Piety of St. Augustine. In: Sentire ecclesiam. The awareness of the church as a formative force of piety. Festschrift for Hugo Rahner on his 60th birthday. Freiburg 1961; in: Ratzinger, Das neue Volk Gottes. Drafts for ecclesiology , Patmos, Düsseldorf 1969
- The path of religious knowledge according to St. Augustine. In: Kyriakon. Festschrift for Johannes Quasten on his 70th birthday , Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 1970
- The Holy Spirit as communion. On the relationship between pneumatology and spirituality in Augustine. In: Claus Heitmann, Heribert Mühlen (Ed.): Experience and Theology of the Holy Spirit , Hamburg / Munich 1974; In: Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger: Weggemeinschaft des Glaubens. Church as communion. - Ceremony for the 75th birthday , published by the Ratzinger Schülerkreis , Sankt Ulrich Verlag, Augsburg 2002 ( ivv7srv15.uni-muenster.de ).
- Church as Eucharist. In: Werner Hülsbusch (Ed.): 800 years of St. Martini Münster , Münster 1980; In: Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, From the recovery of the middle. Basic orientations. Texts from four decades. Published by the Ratzinger Schülerkreis , Herder Verlag, Freiburg 1997
- Part B - Studies on the Theology of the Church Fathers
- The unity of nations. A vision of the church fathers , Pustet, Salzburg 1971 (extended version of a two-hour lecture at the Salzburg University Weeks 1962)
- Fraternity , encyclopedia article in: Dictionnaire de spiritualité. Volume 5, Paris 1964. The German-language text is published for the first time in the Gesammelte Schriften. The basis of the article was: Ratzinger, Die christliche Brüderlichkeit , Kösel-Verlag, Munich 1960
- The concept of the church in patristic thinking , German first publication of the study Il concetto della Chiesa nel pensiero patristico. In: I Grandi Temi del Concilio , Edizioni Paoline, Rome 1965
- Part C - Lexicon Articles, Book Reviews, Book Foreword
- Part D - Sermons
- 2 The Understanding of Revelation and the Theology of History of Bonaventura - Habilitation Thesis and Further Bonaventure Studies (2009)
“In the post-Council period it soon became apparent that the changed theological situation and the new situation at the German universities continued to place so much stress on me that the work on Bonaventure had to be postponed to the time of my retirement. The Lord has led me in other ways in the meantime, and so the book now appears in its present form. […] The work should be dedicated to my brother Georg on his 85th birthday in gratitude for the path and thought community of a whole life. "
- Marianne Schlosser : On Joseph Ratzinger's Bonaventure Studies
- Part A - The understanding of revelation and the theology of history of Bonaventura (complete first version of the habilitation thesis at the University of Munich ) 1955
- Part B - Essays and Lexicon Articles
- The influence of the mendicant order dispute on the development of the doctrine of the papal universal primacy, with special consideration of St. Bonaventure. 1957
- Revelation - Scripture - Tradition. A text by St. Bonaventure and its meaning for contemporary theology. 1958
- Light and enlightenment. Considerations on the position and development of the topic in occidental intellectual history. 1960
- Man and time in the thought of St. Bonaventure. At the same time a contribution to the problem of medieval Augustinism. 1960
- Essence and modes of the auctoritas in the work of St. Bonaventure. 1960
- The use of the word natura and the beginning independence of metaphysics in Bonaventure. 1963
- Saint Bonaventure - teacher of "seraphic" theology
- Joachim of Fiore. 1960
- Gerhard from Borgo San Donnino. 1960
- Part C - Reviews and Forewords
- 1. Reviews
- Treasure find from the Middle Ages. To: Adam von St. Viktor, Complete Sequences, Latin and German, translated by Franz Wellner, 1955
- To: Anselm of Canterbury, Cur Deus Homo. Why God became man, Latin and German, concerned and translated by Franciscus Salesius Schmitt, 1956
- To: Béraud de Saint-Maurice, Johannes Duns Scotus. Teachers of our time, 1955
- To: Angelus Walz, Thomas Aquinas. The life and work of the Prince of Scholasticism, 1953
- To: Antoine Dondaine, Secrétaires de saint Thomas, 1956
- To: Bonifatius Strack OFMCap, Christ suffering in Christian life. A contribution to the theology of Christian life according to St. Bonaventure, 1960
- A German edition of the Franciscan legend Bonaventura. To: Sophronius Clasen , Franziskus, Angel of the Sixth Seal. His life according to the writings of St. Bonaventure, 1962
- To: Winfried Schachten, Intellectus Verbi. The knowledge in the execution of the word according to Bonaventura, 1973
- The symphony of the cross: "The knowledge of God that shines on the face of Christ". To: Cornelio del Zotto, La teologia dell'immagine in San Bonaventura, 1977
- 2. Forewords
- Preface (to: Joseph Ratzinger [ed.]. Current Issues of Scholasticism. 1975)
- For escort (for: Cornelio del Zotto, La teologia dell 'immagine in San Bonaventura 1977)
- 3 The God of Faith and the God of Philosophers - The mutual referencing of fides and ratio
- 4 Introduction to Christianity. Confession - Baptism - Succession
- (with the most famous work from Joseph Ratzinger's time as a professor, the Introduction to Christianity )
- 5 Origin and Destination. Creation - Anthropology - Mariology
- 6 Jesus of Nazareth - Spiritual Christology
- (with Benedict's three-part work Jesus of Nazareth in volume 6.1)
- 7 The teaching of the Second Vatican Council. Formulation - mediation - interpretation
“In Cardinal Frings I had a 'father' who exemplified this spirit of the Kozil. He was of great openness and breadth, but he also knew that only faith leads out into the open, into the breadth that is closed to the positivist attitude. He wanted to serve this faith with the authority received in the sacrament of episcopal ordination. I can always be grateful to him that he took me - the youngest professor of the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Bonn - as his advisor to the big church assembly, so that I was with him in this school and followed the path of the council from within could. This volume contains the various writings with which I have spoken out in this school. "
- Part A - On the eve of the council
- Part B - participation
- Part C - Reporting / Monitoring
- Part D - Cooperation with Josef Cardinal Frings
- Part E - Comment
- Part F - Reception
- Part G - Reviews and Forewords
- 8 Church - Signs Among the Nations. Writings on ecclesiology and ecumenism
- 9 Revelation - Scripture - Tradition. Hermeneutics and Theological Principles
- 10 Resurrection and Eternal Life - Contributions to Eschatology and the Theology of Hope
- 11 Theologie de Liturgie - The sacramental foundation of Christian existence
- 12 Heralds of the Word and Servants of Your Joy - Theology and Spirituality of the Sacrament of Orders
- 13 In conversation with the times. Interviews - Opinion - Objections
- 14 sermons for the church year. Meditations, prayers, meditations
- 15 From my life - autobiographical texts
- 16 Bibliography and general index
Web links
- Information from Herder Verlag
- Edition plan on the website of the Pope Benedict XVI Institute.