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Without Roots: The West, Relativism, Christianity, Islam
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.561
Format: Bargain Price
Label: Basic Books
Languages: EnglishPublished
Manufacturer: Basic Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 159
Publication Date: February 28, 2006
Publisher: Basic Books
Studio: Basic Books
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Editorial Review:Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger-now Pope Benedict XVI-joins Marcello Pera, President of the Italian Senate, to offer a provocative critique of the spiritual, cultural, and political crisis afflicting the West. Bringing together their unique vantage points as leaders of Church and State, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and Marcello Pera challenge us to imagine what can be the future of a civilization that has abandoned its moral and cultural history. They call on the West to embrace a spiritual rather than political renewal -and to accept the moral values that alone can help us to make sense of changes in technology, economics, and society.
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A short book, with a short section by Ratzinger that reiterates Gelasius I, which if nothing else speaks volumes on the mindset of Benedict XVI. Otherwise, little that is noteworthy.
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Two highly educated and keenly intelligent people discuss crucial issues concerning the future of the Western world and they do it without the usual toxic, truth aborting injection of rigid, mindless ideolgy and its banal talking points. Ratzinger surprises by eschewing the expected cleric's Middle Ages scholastic approach to deliver a powerful, genuinely Christian analysis of the situation that even the most determined secularist would admire. Marcelo Pera is the only likeable secular thinker I ... Read More
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We discussed this book in our Church discussion group, and it generated a ton of excitement as it nailed the major problems in politics, religion and government today, not to mention daily life. Basically, at least one major party in the U.S., operating out of a religion of relativism, is ready to lay down and let Islamic Fascists take over our country. Mr Perea says there is a similar group of people in Europe who think all war is evil, and is unwilling to defend itself. War is not intrinsically ... Read More
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When 2 intellectuals from quite different socio-political and religious points of view come to the same conclusion on an issue of Global impact upon society...their conclusions warrant some REAL attention.
These lectures and letters between Ratzinger (Benedict XV) and Pera, present just such a monumentally cogent piece of work.
Importantly, both these great minds have a way of articualting their positions in straightforward, understandable terms which even the average reader ... Read More
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I didn't know much about Ratzinger before I picked this up so I was suprised to see him giving praise to the United States and not doing things like, you know, calling the fight against anti-Semitism, Islamic psychopaths and Pan-Arab Authoritarianism a "great loss for humanity." I couldn't agree more. The future of the world and the West in particular looks pretty bleak at times in my view. Who's going to do it if not us? We defeated Fascism and Communism by ourselves. Once more we have to swoop ... Read More
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