Thought of Pope Benedict XVI new edition: An Introduction to the Theology of Joseph Ratzinger by OP Aidan Nichols

Author:OP, Aidan Nichols [OP, Aidan Nichols]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Continuum UK - Academic
Published: 2007-07-26T04:00:00+00:00

In the Child born of the Virgin’s womb, the earth has borne its greatest fruit — because there God has acted, truly acted, and not simply provided us with an interpretation of the course of nature. The birth from the Virgin Mary is not a ‘tiny, private chapel’ owned by the evangelists Luke and Matthew:

The alternatives are simple. Does God act or not? Can he act at all? If not, is he really ‘God’?37

On right Marian belief turns the assurance, and the hope of Christians.

That assurance and hope are summed up in the two great Marian feasts which correspond to them: the Immaculate Conception, and the Bodily Assumption. On the first, Ratzinger tells his hearers:

the doctrine of the Immaculata reflects ultimately faith’s certitude that there really is a holy Church — as a person and in a person. In this sense it expresses the Church’s certitude of salvation . . . God’s covenant in Israel did not fail but produced a shoot out of which emerged the blossom, the Saviour.38

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