Interpreting the Apocalypse: the Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ and the Hidden Meanings of History
Everything that happened to the Person of Christ will happen to His Church.
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Above: Christ Before the High Priest by Gerard van Honthorst (1617). Among the epochal books I have reread countless times over the past twenty years, a special place is occupied by Joseph Ratzinger’s famous post-doctoral dissertation, Die Geschichtstheologie des heiligen Bonaventura (1959). Translated into English in 1971 under the title The Theology of History in Saint Bonaventure…