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Without Roots: The West, Relativism, Christianity, Islam: Europe, Relativism, Christianity, Islam Copertina flessibile – 30 gennaio 2007
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- Lunghezza stampa175 pagine
- LinguaInglese
- Data di pubblicazione30 gennaio 2007
- Dimensioni12.7 x 1.12 x 20.32 cm
- ISBN-100465006272
- ISBN-13978-0465006274
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- Editore : Basic Books (30 gennaio 2007)
- Lingua : Inglese
- Copertina flessibile : 175 pagine
- ISBN-10 : 0465006272
- ISBN-13 : 978-0465006274
- Peso articolo : 147 g
- Dimensioni : 12.7 x 1.12 x 20.32 cm
- Posizione nella classifica Bestseller di Amazon: n. 1.544 in Islamismo (Libri)
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The theme of the book is judging Europe's past as a cohesive identifier of the culture that was once so great. European culture was born out of Christianity, namely Catholicism, and the current idea of culture is to wipe away any vestiges of a Christian past. To do this, argues Pera and Ratzinger, would be for Europe to lose its identity entirely. Both men speak to issues such as politics, philosophy, and the American model of the separation between Church and State. Pera talks at length about Islam and its unrelenting nature in the face of relativism and political pressure. The audience is those interested in European politics, culture, and Christianity.
The strength of the book has to be the resounding authority and diversity of background with which both men approach the subject at hand. Joseph Ratzinger is now Pope Benedict XVI, perhaps the most authoritative voice on Catholicism in Europe. Marcello Pera is a secularist and the President of the Italian Senate. The challenges might be that Joseph Ratzinger does not give a rebuttal to all the thoughts posed by Pera, claiming his scope lies only in Theology and not politics-for this I respect him and also would love to know what he thinks on subjects like American politics and Islam.
I highly recommend this book. It is enlightening and rare because of the secularist and Catholic arriving at the same conclusion concerning Europe's roots. Also, as an American, if gives me a lot to ponder on our own system of government and the affects Europe has had on the USA.
The speech given by Pope Benedict (then Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger) focuses more on the cultural heritage of the West and its roots in the Mediterranean. In the face of the decline of the West, the Pope offers a positive assessment of the hopes for development by means of "energetic minorities," a topic which is fleshed out in somewhat greater detail in the correspondence included as an appendix to the essays. This idea remains as a hopeful focus against the semi-biologicistic view of culture as a birth-growth-death process which has no hope of breaking out of a death spiral. The continuity of Ratzinger's understanding of the West through history, a continuity which historically has braved storms of philosophical uncertainty by means of energetic groups (be they monastic, academic, or familial).
In view of the grim realities reflected on by both Ratzinger and Pera as they speak of the West's Fall, they both build a staunchly Christian-underpinning for Europe, an under-pinning which is necessary to have roots for the survival. This discussion is all-the-more convincing in light of Pera's atheism which still acknowledges the philosophical necessity of Christianity to combat relativism and restore the roots of the West.
This strong, sober, yet hopeful vision for the West which is a necessary read for us living in a crucial period of history for not only the Church, Europe, and the Extended West but for the entire world.
