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# Eschatology: Death and Eternal Life

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*by O***K on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 31, 2023*

What can I say? It’s Pope Benedict, one of the best theologians of all time.

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    Be prepared: Ratzinger has very unorthdox views
  

*by G***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 13, 2009*

Let me first explain how I am familiar with this book. I have been a member of a discussion group meeting monthly for over a year to discuss chapters of Ratzinger's Eschatology. I myself have written extensive summaries of his discussion of Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven. As a result, I feel that I know this book very well.Ratzinger's approach is historical, dialogical, and, more important, fundamentally christological and interpersonalist, to use the proper theological terms. Translating this into "layman's" terms, what Ratzinger does is consider that every religious term (e.g., "God,""soul," "immortality," "heaven," "hell," "resurrection") develops its meaning over time (by historical evolution), beginning with the OT, continuing in the NT, and through tradition to the present day. This historical evolution (after the NT) occurs primarily through learned discussion (and disagreement) about interpretations (i.e., dialogically or by dialogue, i.e. discussion, usually written). There is no meaning of these terms established forever in the Bible. So what "soul" meant to the early Christians might be very different from what we mean by it today. Ultimately, terms need to be reinterpreted to make sense to contemporaries. Although Ratzinger covers his tracks well through vague, convoluted, and obscure language, what he actually thinks is very different from what the ordinary Christian believes. Heaven, e.g., Ratzinger explicitly says is not a place. Neither is Hell or Purgatory. So, they are not places anyone goes to. So what are they? They are relationships we (human beings) have to Christ and to one another. "Heaven" is be interpreted christologically and interpersonally, i.e. it is to be explained by our relationship to Christ and through Christ to one another. We are heaven, he says.People who read the book carefully will find it shocking. Pretty much all one's cherished beliefs are tossed out the window.....through reinterpretation. Forget personal survival; forget going to a place that is heaven. Not so, according to Ratzinger. But, how then, if he has these views, could he be the pope? How could this be true? Well, he was elected pope because he is conservative on moral issues (e.g., abortion, homosexuality, and radical social movements) and on the liturgy. Also, he will continue to use the traditional language of Catholicism. So his private theological views won't come out to make waves.By the way, I have a PhD and found this book tough slogging. Ratzinger is not clear and his writings could use a lot of editing. Having said that, I want to make it clear that I share many of his views. I just want potential readers to be forewarned that they won't be getting what they expect.

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