Pope Benedict XVI: Protector of Faith or Opponent of Progress? by Wyatt North

Author:Wyatt North
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Publisher: Wyatt North Publishing, LLC
Published: 2015-05-08T06:00:00+00:00

Many issues were discussed at the council, such as the liturgy, Sacred Scripture, and the Church in the modern world. The issue of Sacred Scripture was a topic that was of special interest for Ratzinger since his habilitation was partly related to the topic of divine revelation. The conciliar debates concerning Scripture began with a discussion of the so-called two sources of revelation, i.e., Scripture and tradition. In this theological model of the relationship between Scripture and tradition and God’s self-revelation, it was understood that God reveals himself by two means: through the written Word of God and through the tradition that had been handed down through the apostles and their successors. Ratzinger, however, had shown in his habilitation that revelation is antecedent to and greater than the written Word of God, and that it is because God reveals himself to particular individuals that there is a written Word with which to begin. Revelation, therefore, is the primordial theological event inviting faith. Revelation as such is not to be understood as flowing out scripture and tradition as though it were some liquid flowing out of two pipes; instead, revelation was in fact the source of Scripture and tradition since without it they would not even exist.

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