Benedict XVI: A Life Volume One
Youth in Nazi Germany to the Second Vatican Council 1927–1965
Benedict XVI: A Life Volume One
Youth in Nazi Germany to the Second Vatican Council 1927–1965
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The long-awaited and authoritative biography of Pope Benedict XVI, a giant of the Catholic Church.
Benedict XVI: Volume One offers insight into the young life and rise through the Church's ranks of a man who would become a hero and a lightning rod for Catholics the world over. Based on countless hours of interviews in Rome with Benedict himself, this much-anticipated two-volume biography is the definitive record of the life of Joseph Ratzinger and the legacy of Pope Benedict XVI.
Volume I follows the early life of the future Pope, from his days growing up in Germany and his conscription into the Hitler Youth during World War II to his career as an academic theologian and eventual Archbishop of Munich. Volume II, to be published in 2021, will cover his move to Rome under Pope John Paul II, his ascension to the papacy, and his controversial retirement and news-making statements under his successor, Pope Francis I.
This necessary companion to Benedict's own memoir, Last Testament, is the fullest account to date of the life of a radical Catholic leader who has continued to make news while cloistered in retirement in the Vatican gardens.
Table of Contents
Foreword
PART ONE: THE BOY
1. Easter Saturday
2. The Impediment
3. The Dreamland
4. 1933: 'Holy Year'
5. The 'German Christians'
6. With Burning Concern
7. The Calm before the Storm
8. The Seminary
9. War
10. Resistance
11. The End
PART TWO: THE MASTER STUDENT
12. Zero Hour
13. The Scholars' Mountain
14. Guilt and Atonement
15. Upheaval in Thinking
16. The Glass Bead Game
17. Augustine
18. Storm and Stress
19. The Key Reading
20. The Major Orders
21. The Curate
22. The Examination
23. The Abyss
24. The New Heathens and the Church
PART THREE: THE COUNCIL
25. A Star is Born
26. The Network
27. Council
28. The Battle Begins
29. The Genoa Speech
30. The Spin Doctor
31. The World on the Brink
32. Seven Days That Changed the Catholic Church For Ever
33. German Wave
34. Power Sources
35. In the School of the Holy Spirit
36. The Legacy
Notes
Index
Product details
| Published | Dec 15 2020 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 512 |
| ISBN | 9781472979193 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Continuum |
| Illustrations | 16 page black and white plate section |
| Dimensions | 234 x 153 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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