by Joseph Ratzinger · Fayard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782213591704
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«La mort et l'au-delà: court traité d'espérance chrétienne» is the essay by Joseph Ratzinger, published by Fayard in paperback (308 pages, in French).
Ratzinger sets out Christian hope in the face of death: judgement, the immortality of the soul, the resurrection of the body, hell and paradise. Against certain contemporary theologies, he defends the Judeo-Christian heritage of immortality and proposes a Catholic answer to the mystery of the afterlife, in the face of modern man's anguish.
The original French edition was published in 1994, when Joseph Ratzinger was a cardinal, in Fayard's Communio collection.
For readers interested in Catholic theology and in Joseph Ratzinger's thought on death and the afterlife.
During his papal tenure, Pope Benedict XVI focused on building on the outreach of his predecessors towards Islam. One of the important milestones in the Pope's efforts included a religious and peaceful initiative called A Common Word. This was provoked by a 2006 lecture he delivered at a university in Regensburg, Germany, which prompted Muslim leaders to gather and make overtures to their Christian and Jewish counterparts. Later on, Pope Benedict pursued key initiatives that helped foster Christian and Muslim dialogue. These were founded on the Pope's belief that Christians and Muslims have shared religious experience and that Christianity and Islam are both theologically founded in "God's irruptive call ... heard in the midst of man's ordinary daily existence."
