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Saturday, May 10, 2008

Introduction to Christianity - Opening

BELIEF IN THE WORLD OF TODAY

I. DOUBT AND BELIEF - MAN'S SITUATION
BEFORE THE QUESTION OF GOD

ANYONE who tries today to talk about the question of Christian faith in the presence of people who are not thoroughly at home with ecclesiastical language and thought by calling or convention soon comes to sense the alien - and alienating - nature of such an enterprise.


TO MY AUDIENCES
IN FREISING, BONN, MUNSTER
AND TUBINGEN


INTRODUCTION TO CHRISTIANITY

by
JOSEPH RATZINGER

Translated by J. R. Foster


HERDER AND HERDER

1970
HERDER AND HERDER NEW YORK
232 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10016

This is a translation of Einfuhrung in das Christentum
(Kosel-Verlag, Munich, 1968)

Nihil obstat: John M. T. BARTON, S.T.D., L.S.S., Censor
Imprimatur: PATRICK CASEY, Vicar General
Westminster: 31 July 1969

English translation 1969 by Burns & OAtes Ltd.
Manufactured in the United States

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