...AND WILLY-NILLY INTO THE UNI-REGENSBURG SITE - WHAT A TROVE!
tonight when I came across this entry which I had not seen before
[I am every inefficient about checking out sites thoroughly because
I get caught up in the mechanics of posting something into the Forum
first before proceeding to a further search, and then I forget all about
what I was doing earlier!)
This Bible, the Regensburg Picture Bible, was presumably presented to Pope Benedict
when he came to his old university on 9/12/06 - a day that will live on in history as the
Regensburg Moment {Reason's answer to the Unreason of 9/11/01!]
Acfording to the blurb that goes with it, the Bible realizes the Pope's own wish that
art works in his lifetime can be used to open new ways to appreciate the Bible for
the visually-oriented generations today. {
He had the same idea for the Compendium of
the Catechism of the Catholic Church, for which he personally chose the artwork himself.)
50 works were chosen in which Catholic, evangelical and Jewish artists illustrated
Biblical themes. When the Pope was still Cardinal Ratzinger, the book was discussed
between him and Prof. Dr. Dr. Christoph Dohmen, who was then a member of the
Pontifical Biblical Commission and Dean of the Catholic Theological Faculty at the
University, and who published the book in Stuttgart, earlier in 2006.
Dohmen Christoph (Hrsg.): Die Regensburger Bilderbibel. Für Papst Benedikt XVI.
Stuttgart, 2006.
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Oh, dear! The site now contains at least 27 documents related
to Ratzinger's association with the University - and all this
material has been sitting there all these months! Here are
the first few -
First, Joseph Ratzinger's typewritten CV submitted to the
University in 1968 (in PDF unfortunately) - the most
reliable guide so far to his academic preparation. The
document does not even need translation because the data
is all self-explanatory and evident. I would love to
convert this to an image, though.
www-benedikt.uni-regensburg.de/files/14d.pdf
This is the document formally naming him professor
at Regensburg in 1969:
This shows the academic roster of the Catholic theological faculty
at Regensburg in 1970:
This shows the professors' course assignments in
the summer semester of 1970:
This was taken at a session of the Regensburg faculty held
at the Inter-Orthodox Center in Athens in 1973, and RAtzi
is in the fifth row, half-hidden by the Orthodox priest and
his head-covering [
as Music of Lorien pointed out to this half-blind!]
Below, the program for that meeting:
This is a newspaper clipping in May 1974 reporting that
Pope Paul VI had named Prof. Ratzinger to another 5-year
term on the International Theological Commission, to which
he had belonged since after Vatican-II [and which as Prefect
of the CDF later, he would become the ex-officio President
for almost a quarter-century!).
An interesting line in the news item notes that "Prof. Dr.
Ratzinger (is) the brother of the famous Domkapellmeister
Georg Ratzinger...."
A page in the 1974-75 university prospectus where Ratzi's
name appears as one of the university vice presidents and
pro-rectors (he got the ranking in 1974 and kept it till
he left for Munich in 1977).
In the same prospectus, his name appears as Dean of the
Theological Faculty:
In November 1974, he writes French philosopher Paul Ricoeur
inviting him to give a guest lecture at Regensburg in the
summer of 1975.
Ricoeur writes him in June that his lecture will be
on "Objectivization and Alienation in the Historical
Experience":
This is a page about Ratzi the Regensburg professor in
the little book 'HIER BIN ICH DAHEIM' [Here I am home]
(published by the diocese of Regensburg in 2005 about
the new Pope as Regensburg resident):
I will post the other documents later. Meanwhile, you may
check them out yourselves at
www-benedikt.uni-regensburg.de/
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 01/03/2007 20.57]