Schall on Benedict XVI

The True Impoverishment of Man: On Benedict XVI and Bishops

2011-03-17T20:05:00.000-07:00

"Present and Active Within World History": On Jesus of Nazareth, Part Two

2011-03-10T18:29:00.000-08:00

Religious Freedom and Religious Persecution - On Pope Benedict's Message for the World Day of Peace

2011-01-27T14:50:00.000-08:00

On Faithful and Faithless Theologians

2011-01-15T20:14:00.000-08:00

"A World Existing Independently From Us": On the Pope and the Scientific Method

2010-11-29T11:00:00.000-08:00

"The Ultimate Meaning of Our Human Existence": On the Fundamental Question of the Modern Age

2010-10-07T23:48:00.000-07:00

Faith Abides: The Intelligence of Benedict XVI

2010-09-28T20:55:00.000-07:00

"The Challenge of Jesus of Nazareth"

2010-08-11T07:06:00.000-07:00

"On Using Heart and Mind"

2010-07-23T17:19:00.000-07:00

"The Great 'Surprise' of St. Thomas"

2010-07-05T18:33:00.000-07:00

"And Not To Any God": Benedict XVI and the God Question

2010-06-12T12:32:00.000-07:00

Life: Political, Endless, and Eternal

2010-04-25T23:56:00.000-07:00

Veritas Vincit: The Pope in Prague

2009-10-29T13:06:00.000-07:00

Omnipotence and Mercy

2009-08-21T13:20:00.000-07:00

Caritas in Veritate: "Its Principal Driving Force"

2009-07-20T07:10:00.000-07:00

The Gift of God

2009-06-15T13:26:00.000-07:00

'A Word Addressed by God to His People': Benedict XVI and the Interpretation of Sacred Scripture

2009-05-19T20:40:00.000-07:00

"The Single Divine Plan": Thinking About Poverty

2008-12-17T13:54:00.000-08:00

"Words create history": On Benedict XVI and the Synod

2008-10-20T14:04:00.000-07:00

Ignatius Insight September 15, 2008

Ratzinger's Faith and Reason

2008-09-29T21:05:00.000-07:00

Benedict in Paris

2008-09-20T15:30:00.000-07:00

Ignatius Insight September 15, 2008

On The Risk of Listening

2008-06-26T15:45:00.000-07:00

"The Reality of God": Benedict XVI on the Trinity

2008-06-07T10:37:00.000-07:00

Ignatius Insight June 5, 2008

The Papal Visit

2008-04-10T19:09:00.000-07:00

Ignatius Insight April 8, 2008

"Always More Than Is Seen": Benedict XVI on the Meaning of Man

2008-03-01T16:01:00.000-08:00

Father James V. Schall on "Spe Salvi"

2008-02-01T13:29:00.000-08:00

Father James Schall on "Spe Salvi" (Part I) Zenit News Service. January 31, 2008.
Father James Schall on "Spe Salvi" (Part II) Zenit News Service. February 1, 2008.

"Schall on Pope Benedict and the Defense of Reason"

2007-12-13T16:50:00.000-08:00

Fr. James V. Schall on Pope Benedict and the Defense of Reason - Interview with Ken Masugi for the Claremont Review of Books December 13, 2007.

This interview covers the relationship between reason and faith and its political implications. It explores the themes of the Pope's recent encyclical on hope (Spe Salvi) and Fr. Schall's most recent books.

The Encyclical on Hope: On the "De-immanentizing" of the Christian Eschaton

2007-12-03T19:55:00.000-08:00

Ignatius Insight December 3, 2007

Why the Bewilderment? Benedict XVI on Natural Law

2007-10-27T00:03:00.000-07:00

Ignatius Insight October 27, 2007

Regensburg Revisited

2007-10-09T09:20:00.000-07:00

Regensburg Revisited (Part 1): Interview With Father James Schall | Part II | Part III October 9-11, 2007. Interview with Zenit.org.

"Where God is, there is the future" - On Benedict XVI in Austria

2007-10-01T12:12:00.000-07:00

Ignatius Insight October 1, 2007

Fr. Schall on Benedict's "Jesus of Nazareth"

2007-09-29T18:06:00.000-07:00

Fr. Schall: "The Regensburg Lecture"

2007-09-29T17:54:00.000-07:00

The Regensburg Lecture St. Augustines Press; 1 edition (April 30, 2007). 176 pages.

From the Publisher Overshadowed by the violent reaction and rioting throughout the world, the September 12, 2006, lecture by Pope Benedict XVI at Regensburg, Germany, at the university where he once taught, is a multifaceted and brilliant speech that addresses the very nature of man’s understanding of a free conscience, his thirst for knowledge in both reason and revelation, his understanding of the limitations of the will, and the nature of his ability to understand his neighbor. It explains the Church’s historical claims that Christ himself is Logos (as the opening of John’s Gospel proclaims), a term meaning “word,” “logic,” and “speech.” One’s faith is to be grounded in a self-limiting God, Who does not capriciously change the rules on humans but Who reveals himself to our reason as well as our hearts. A God Who respects His own creation enough to give man free will, and thus a free conscience and an ability to fail; Who leads man, through both reason and revelation, to Himself, always in peace and never in violence; Who is a God of Life, not Death.

The lecture is a mere eight single-spaced pages of text, but it encapsulates not only theoretical history of the Church, but touches on the most poignant current problems the world witnesses, namely, the rise of terrorism and the confrontation between reason and will, between the Word and the Sword. Though incredibly timely, it is as timeless as the Gettysburg Address, Pericles’ Funeral Oration, Plato’s Apology, and Henry V’s Speech on St. Crispin’s Day. No doubt it will be studied and read for generations to come, not only by Catholics, not only by Christians, but by men of good will the world over.

So it is fitting that our world’s modern G.K. Chesterton – James Schall – has chosen to explicate this most-important work by the world’s premier theologian on the thorniest, most divisive questions of our day. Jim Schall, throughout the hundreds upon hundreds of books, articles, and reviews he has written, has always, like Chesterton, maintained a graceful and accessible touch, a clear and memorable style, that makes light work from heavy sources. He is the perfect person to explain both the central concepts and the importance of this amazing speech.

Early critical response to The Regensburg Lecture - from the Publishers.

Reviews

Review by Graham B. Glover. Christian Study Center of Gainsville, FL.

Pope Benedict XVI and the Essential Worldwide Mission

2007-08-27T05:56:00.000-07:00

Ignatius Insight August 27, 2007

On Saying the Tridentine Mass

2007-08-16T19:28:00.000-07:00

Ignatius Insight August 16, 2007 (On Benedict's Motu Proprio)

"No Weighing, No Disputing, No Such Thing": Ratzinger and Europe

2007-08-11T05:31:00.000-07:00

Ignatius Insight August 11, 2007

Pope Benedict XVI On Natural Law

2007-03-16T19:05:00.000-07:00

Ignatius Insight March 16, 2007

Benedict on Aquinas: "Faith Implies Reason"

2007-02-01T19:42:00.000-08:00

Ignatius Insight February 1, 2007

Secularity: On Benedict XVI on the Role of Religion in Society

2007-01-09T18:18:00.000-08:00

Ignatius Insight January 9, 2007

"A Requirement of Intellectual Honesty": On Benedict and the German Bishops

2006-12-20T19:06:00.000-08:00

Ignatius Insight December 20, 2006

What is the Proper Object of Theology? The Pope at the Gregorian

2006-11-27T19:44:00.000-08:00

Ignatius Insight November 27, 2006

Intellectual Charity: On Benedict XVI and the Canadian Bishops

2006-10-09T18:24:00.000-07:00

Ignatius Insight October 9, 2006

God as Logos, Allah as Will

2006-10-03T19:19:00.000-07:00

"God as Logos, Allah as Will": Father James Schall on Benedict XVI's Regensburg Address Interview with Zenit News Service. October 3, 2006.

The State Which Would Provide Everything

2006-10-03T18:27:00.000-07:00

Ignatius Insight October 3, 2006 (on Benedict's first encyclical, "Deus Caritas Est"

Ratzinger and Regensburg: On What Is a University?

2006-09-18T19:16:00.000-07:00

Ignatius Insight September 18, 2006

The Regensburg Lecture: Thinking Rightly About God and Man

2006-09-15T19:15:00.000-07:00

Ignatius Insight September 15, 2006

Atheism and the Purely "Human" Ethic

2006-06-05T18:41:00.000-07:00

Ignatius Insight June 5, 2006 (On Benedict's April 2006 Address to the Members of the Pontifical Biblical Commission)

"God's Eros is Agape" - Schall's Commentary on Deus Caritas Est

2006-02-02T19:31:00.000-08:00

"God's Eros is Agape" Commentary on Benedict XVI's Deus Caritas Est. Ignatius Insight, 2006.

"On Reading the Pope"

2006-01-20T18:46:00.001-08:00

Ignatius Insight January 19-20, 2006

What a Homily Should Be: Doctrinal, Liturgical, and Spiritual

2005-12-09T18:50:00.000-08:00

Ignatius Insight December 9, 2005 (On Benedict's 2005 Ad Limina Address to the Austrian Bishops