Considering Benedict XVI's theology and papacy on his 94th birthday
Ethics must be linked to Christology, especially the sacrifice of the cross. Did Christ bring us to God or did he bring God to us? Was he satisfying a cosmic debt or sharing, with the Father, our apartness?Are we to focus on our sins or in how we respond to sin as God would? This is the most profound question in Christianity and religion as a whole. Ratzinger's theology absolutely reflects this. God is for us in his revelation to us.
The problem of Benedict's papacy was his fealty to the organization, which he and his generation equate with fealty to God. He missed the implication of his theology, which is that God does not need our fealty. The true Majesty of God is Humility. Benedict's moral theology upholds the authority of the Church over the truth. He was correct that the tyranny of relativism is the scourge of our age, but did not realize that he was the Tyrant.
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