Joseph Ratzinger Author

Joseph Ratzinger was Professor of theology at Munich and Regensburg before becoming head of the Congreation for the Doctrine of the Faith of the Roman Catholic Church. He was elected Pope taking the name Benedict XVI. in 2005. Gerard Mannion was Associate Professor in Theology and Religious Studies at Liverpool Hope University, UK and is currently Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Catholic University in Leuven, Belgium. Lieven Boeve is professor of fundamental theology at the Faculty of Theology of the Catholic University of Leuven, having received his doctorate in 1995. He is the author of Interrupting Tradition: An Essay on Christian Faith in a Postmodern Context (Leuven: Peeters; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003).