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Benedict XVI : an intimate portrait / by Peter Seewald ; translated by Henry Taylor and Anne Englund Nash.
LIBRA BX1378.6 .S4413 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Seewald, Peter, interviewer.
- Standardized Title:
- Benedikt XVI, ein Porträt aus der Nähe. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Benedict XVI, Pope, 1927-2022--Interviews.
- Benedict.
- Seewald, Peter.
- Benedict XVI, Pope, 1927-2022.
- Popes--Interviews.
- Popes.
- Genre:
- Interviews.
- Physical Description:
- 260 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : Ignatius Press, [2008]
- Summary:
- In the person of Benedict XVI, the Church has a Pope who is one of the most significant of Europe's intellectuals. The journalist Peter Seewald, who has known Ratzinger since 1992, conducted the "longest interviews in Church history" with him, for two books which were best-sellers world-wide, Salt of the Earth, and God and the World. -- Now, for the first time, Seewald describes these intensive encounters in detail, and draws a portrait of this brilliant theologian who has put his life entirely at the service of the Catholic Church. This book is also the story of a long dialogue that changed Seewald's life. Many people are trying to understand who Benedict XVI really is. On one point they all agree: in the person of Joseph Ratzinger, the chair of Peter is occupied by one of the most brilliant minds in the world. Peter Seewald's portrait of Benedict recounts details about the personality and life of Benedict that were hitherto completely unknown.
- Contents:
- Rome, Saint Peter's Square
- Papal transition
- Providence
- Popes do not come down from heaven
- Conclave
- Habemus Papam
- A task
- The rebel
- His companions
- His opponents
- His childhood
- The meeting
- Papa Ratzi
- The youth of a Pope
- The priest
- The fight for Rome
- The Prefect
- God and the world
- Epilogue: The hour of Jesus.
- ISBN:
- 9781586171902
- 1586171909
- OCLC:
- 229030092
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