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January 31, 2006

Deus Caritas Est Foreshadowing?

Somewhat of an academic point to ponder, now that the encyclical's already out, but in Pope Benedict's 1993 book, The Nature and Mission of Theology, there is this:

Love, the center of Christian reality on which "depend the law and the prophets", is at the same time eros for truth, and only so does it remain sound as agape for God and man.

That seems to explain rather succinctly why he chose love as a topic for his first encyclical. Not having read it yet, owing to it not being on the front burner of required readings, I don't know whether or not this sentence reflects the encyclical. I will hopefully find time to answer that for myself in the next week or two.

- Posted by in Catholic at 12:32 AM