Volumes I and II will include Ratzingers undergraduate and doctorate theses, as well as other writings concerning Augustine and Bonaventure, the two doctors of the Church who are the subjects of his theses. Volume III will open with Ratzingers inaugural conference as a professor: The God of faith and the God of the philosophers, delivered in Bonn in 1959, followed by writings on faith and reason and the historical-intellectual foundations of Europe. Volume IV will open with the famous Introduction to Christianity of 1968. It will be followed by other writings on the profession of faith, baptism, following Christ, and the fulfillment of Christian existence. Volume V will collect writings on creation, anthropology, the doctrine of grace, Mariology. Volume VI will be on Christology, and will open with Jesus of Nazareth, the only work in the collection that was written and published after the authors election as pope. Volume VII will collect the writings on Vatican Council II, including notes and comments from that period. Volume VIII will deal with ecclesiology and ecumenism. Volume IX will collect essays on theological epistemology and hermeneutics, in particular on the understanding of the Scriptures, Revelation, Tradition. Volume X will open with Eschatology, published in 1977, followed by other writings on hope, death, resurrection, eternal life. Volume XI is the one that has been published first, in the past few days. It is entitled Theology of the Liturgy. Volume XII, dedicated to the doctrine of the sacraments and to the ministry, will be entitled Proclaimers of the Word and Servants of Your Joy. Volume XIII will collect the many interviews conducted with Joseph Ratzinger, including the ones published in book form, with Vittorio Messori in 1984, and with Peter Seewald in 1996 and 2000. Volume XIV will collect homilies from before his election as pope, many of which are little known and previously unpublished. Volume XV will open with the book My Life, published in 1997, followed by other writings of an autobiographical and personal nature. Volume XVI will close the series with a complete bibliography of the works of Joseph Ratzinger in German, plus a comprehensive index of all the preceding volumes. The individual volumes will also be equipped with detailed indexes. chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/208933?eng=y I need a bigger bedroom in which to store all this!!
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