by Pope Benedict XVI · Livros do Brasil · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789723827736
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«Minha vida: a autobiografia» by Livros do Brasil is the autobiography of Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI, in paperback (139 pages, in Portuguese).
Written before his papal election, this autobiography covers Ratzinger's childhood and youth in Nazi Germany, his forced service in the Second World War and his desertion from the army; then his priestly vocation, his theological work, his involvement in the Second Vatican Council and his appointment as Archbishop of Munich.
The work was originally published as «Milestones: Memoirs 1927-1977» in 1977; this Portuguese edition appeared in 2005.
A work of interest for readers of religious biographies, the figure of Benedict XVI and the history of the Catholic Church during the twentieth century.
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."
