Dialectics of Secularization: On Reason and Religion

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Ignatius Press, 2006 - Religion - 85 pages
Two 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.
 

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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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Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, former professor of dogmatic and fundamental theology at the universities of Bonn, Munster, Tubingen, and Regensburg Jurgen Habermas has been a professor of philosophy at the universities of Heidelberg and Johann Wolfgang Goethe in Frankfurt am Main

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