Dialectics of Secularization: On Reason and ReligionTwo of the worlds great contemporary thinkers - theologian and churchman Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, and Jürgen Habermas, philosopher and Neo-Marxist social critic - discuss and debate aspects of secularization, and the role of reason and religion in a free society. These insightful essays are the result of a remarkable dialogue between the two men, sponsored by the Catholic Academy of Bavaria, a little over a year before Joseph Ratzinger was elected pope. |
Contents
How should believing and unbelieving citizens | 48 |
Power and | 58 |
Lawnaturereason | 67 |
The intercultural dimension and its consequences | 73 |
THE AUTHORS OF THIS BOOK | 81 |
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