Benedict XVI: A Life Volume Two: Professor and Prefect to Pope and Pope Emeritus 1966-The Present

Emeritus Pope Benedict commanded both adulation and unremitting criticism. To millions, he was a beacon of light in a turbulent modern world.

In this second volume of Peter Seewald's authoritative biography, the story continues from the Second Vatican Council (1965-8) right up to his resignation in 2013. We see how Benedict was influenced by the Council and the ensuing political unrest all over Europe to move from a liberal perspective on the Church and the modern world to one that was profoundly conservative. Appointed in 1981 as prefect of the Congregation of Doctrine of the Faith, and quickly nicknamed 'God's Rottweiler', he proved to be intransigent on the controversial issues of abortion, contraception, gay rights and gay marriage. But elected Pope in 2005, his tenure of office was so riven with shocking revelations of controversy and scandal that it seemed that by the time of his resignation in 2013 he was incapable of handling the complexities of the Church in the modern world.

Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
Part one professor
1 Tübingen
2 Deeply Afraid
3 1968 and the Myth of the Change
4 The Catholic Crisis
5 A Fresh Start
6 Tensions
7 The Vision of the Church of the Future
8 Reconquest
9 The Doctrine of Eternal Life
10 Archbishop
11 The Year of Three Popes
12 The Küng Case
13 The Legacy of Munich
Part two prefect
14 The Prefect
15 Ratzinger's Report
16 The Fight over Liberation Theology
17 Teamwork
18 The Collapse
19 The Long Suffering of Karol Wojtyla
20 Millennium
21 Agony
22 Conclave
23 Habemus Papam
Part three pope
24 The First Pope of the Third Millennium
25 In the Shoes of the Fisherman
26 Benedetto Mania
27 The Regensburg Speech
28 Deus caritas est
29 Salt of the Earth, Light of the World
30 The Rupture
31 The Condom Crisis
32 The Abuse Scandal
33 The Shepherd
34 Human Ecology
35 Desecularization
36 The Betrayal
37 The Resignation
38 The Beginning of a New Era
Afterword: Final Questions to Benedict XVI

ISBN: 9781399404891
Title: Benedict XVI: A Life Volume Two: Professor and Prefect to Pope and Pope Emeritus 1966-The Present
Author: Seewald, Peter
Format: Paperback