From Regensburg to Berlin—Holiness and Reason: A Reflection on Pope Benedict XVI's Public Lectures
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A Pope speaks Urbi et Orbi, as Bishop of Rome and as a moral leader to the world. I expect that Pope Benedict XVI’s intellectual legacy to the world will not reside in his encyclicals or apostolic letters, but in a remarkable set of speeches—at the UN, at the Colleges des Bernardins in Paris, at Westminster, and above all at Regensburg and Berlin in his address to the German Bundestag. It would be redundant, perhaps even otiose, once again to parse through Regensburg and the Bundestag speeches. I will try first succinctly to recapture their most essential messages—and the nexus between the two. But the burden of this reflection will in going beyond the two speeches and exploring some of their implications and consequences—intended and unintended. Most important I will emphasize what lessons should not be taken from the Pope’s remarkable discourse.
Source Publication
Pope Benedict XVI'S Legal Thought: A Dialogue on the Foundation of Law
Source Editors/Authors
Marta Cartabia, Andrea Simoncini
Publication Date
2015
Recommended Citation
Weiler, Joseph H. H., "From Regensburg to Berlin—Holiness and Reason: A Reflection on Pope Benedict XVI's Public Lectures" (2015). Faculty Chapters. 1493.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-chapt/1493
