The idea of a priest in the light of Joseph Ratzinger’s interpretation of John 7:37-39
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Abstract: The title makes allusion to John Henry Newman’s Idea of a University. In this book Newman had in mind a perfect concept of academic formation. Taking its cue from Newman’s talks to the Catholics in Dublin, the question of priestly formation will be focused on, as well as the theological foundations of priestly openness. We will begin with Pope Benedict XVI’s letter to Ireland (2010), where he expressed the needs of the time, both with respect to the contemporary challenges of secularism and also regarding a deficit in making greater reference to the Gospel in priests’ ways of thinking. A new approach to the understanding of J. Ratzinger’s theology of priesthood, in its openness, will be undertaken in the light of the biblical-patristic interpretation of John 7:37-39, as a hitherto unnoticed key to his vision of a priest. In this regard, the Alexandrian reading and the Antiochian understanding of Jesus’ prophecy during the Feast of Tabernacles, which Ratzinger already touched on in his trilogy Jesus of Nazareth, will be unfolded after a short exegetical note regarding these verses from exemplary representatives of the two schools. The result will be connected with Ratzinger’s theology of openness concerning the priestly ministry, in which he developed a Christocentric and a “Pneumatocentric” line. From there, an actualization will be offered by returning to the papal letter to Ireland with some proposals for a future pastoral of priesthood in its phase of formation, keeping in mind the reference to Christ and the Spirit, which will have been treated, as well as Ratzinger’s own thoughts towards priestly formation.
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