Un rapporto interrotto con la modernità

Riflessioni sulla mia prima disputa con Joseph Ratzinger

Abstract

In his text, W. Kasper dwells on his first debate with Ratzinger, which was triggered by his review of Ratzinger’s Einführung in das Christentum, «a classic of contemporary Christian theology». Kasper identified in Ratzinger a form of Platonic thought, a form capable, among other things, of directing and conditioning the way of understanding the historicity of Christianity and the nature of truth. This is also reflected in Ratzinger’s conflictual encounter with modernity. E. Prato’s notes on this debate take up the question of history, showing how it is developed in both of the authors research in the decades following this first exchange.