Peter Seewald

Benedict XVI: A Life Volume Two (eBook, ePUB)

Professor and Prefect to Pope and Pope Emeritus 1966-The Present

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Emeritus Pope Benedict commanded both adulation and unremitting criticism. To millions, he was a beacon of light in a turbulent modern world.

In this second volume of Peter Seewald's authoritative biography, the story continues from the Second Vatican Council (1965-8) right up to his resignation in 2013 - the first Pope to do so in almost 600 years. We see how Benedict was influenced by the Council and the ensuing political unrest all over Europe to move from a liberal perspective on the Church and the modern world to one that was profoundly conservative. Appointed in 1981 as prefect of the Congregation of Doctrine of the Faith, and quickly nicknamed 'God's Rottweiler', he proved to be intransigent on the controversial issues of abortion, contraception, gay rights and gay marriage. But elected Pope in 2005, his tenure of office was so riven with shocking revelations of controversy and scandal that it seemed that by the time of his resignation in 2013 he was incapable of handling the complexities of the Church in the modern world.

Vatileaks, sexual abuse by priests, the Regensburg speech which became the spark of an eruption of anger and rage in the Muslim world - all these hit the world's media headlines.

Peter Seewald was the only person who was close enough to Benedict to assess the man himself and to uncover the truth about so many of the controversial issues surrounding this most controversial papacy. Seewald has already published two books of interviews with Benedict and this book is based not just on meticulous research but on many hours of recorded interviews with Benedict himself. It will stand for many years as the definitive biography of Benedict XVI from an author with unrivalled access to the Pope Emeritus.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 576
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472979254
• Artikelnr.: 62528366

Autorenporträt

Peter Seewald has worked as a journalist for Stern, Spiegel and the Süddeutsche Zeitung and is one of the most admired authors on religion in Germany today. His previous book of interviews with Pope Benedict Last Testament was widely reviewed in the religious and international press.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Part one professor
1 Tübingen
2 Deeply Afraid
3 1968 and the Myth of the Change
4 The Catholic Crisis
5 A Fresh Start
6 Tensions
7 The Vision of the Church of the Future
8 Reconquest
9 The Doctrine of Eternal Life
10 Archbishop
11 The Year of Three Popes
12 The Küng Case
13 The Legacy of Munich
Part two prefect
14 The Prefect
15 Ratzinger's Report
16 The Fight over Liberation Theology
17 Teamwork
18 The Collapse
19 The Long Suffering of Karol Wojtyla
20 Millennium
21 Agony
22 Conclave
23 Habemus Papam
Part three pope
24 The First Pope of the Third Millennium
25 In the Shoes of the Fisherman
26 Benedetto Mania
27 The Regensburg Speech
28 Deus caritas est
29 Salt of the Earth, Light of the World
30 The Rupture
31 The Condom Crisis
32 The Abuse Scandal
33 The Shepherd
34 Human Ecology
35 Desecularization
36 The Betrayal
37 The Resignation
38 The Beginning of a New Era
Afterword: Final Questions to Benedict XVI
Notes
Index